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Webinar “The defense of the rights of migrants in the time of COVID-19”

Last Thursday, July 2, PBI organized a virtual seminar on the defense of the rights of migrants in the time of COVID-19 in collaboration with Madrid’s University Carlos III, and for which we had the presence of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants from the United Nations, Professor Felipe González Morales.

Civil society speaks out regarding the presidential agreement on the involvement of the armed forces in public security efforts.

On May 11, a presidential agreement was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation “by which the permanent Armed Forces are available to carry out public security tasks in an extraordinary, regulated, supervised, subordinate and complementary manner.” Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this agreement consolidates the role of the Army practically until the end of the current government’s

Espacio OSC, HRDs and Journalists call to respect the right to defend human rights during the COVID-19 crisis

In the state of the health emergency caused by Covid-19, human rights defenders, journalists and CSOs urge the Mexican Government and its institutions to generate measures in order to guarantee the right to defend human rights, in accordance with national and international recommendations.

Assassination of Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola: A decade of impunity

Last 27th April was the 10th anniversary of the deaths of Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola1, two human rights defenders and activists murdered during the Humanitarian Caravan and Human Rights Observation Mission near the indigenous community of San Juan Copala in the State of Oaxaca. Their families and civil society organizations are still calling for justice 10 years after the tragic events.

EU-Mexico Agreement: PBI and European civil society concerned about human rights implications

On April 28th, the European Commission announced the conclusion of negotiations surrounding the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, following a phone call between commissioner Phil Hogan and the Mexican Economic Minister, Graciela Márquez Colín.1 This commercial agreement, whose negotiations had been on hold since part way through 2018, was finalized in a moment in which civil society’s attention centers on responding to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, with limited capacity for reaction and oppositio

"Disappearances aren’t stopping, and in the face of the new challenges implicated by the pandemic, for families, the need to continue searching does not stop." Movement for our Disappeared in Mexico

Mother’s Day is celebrated in Mexico on May 10. However, for the mothers of disappeared people, this date is not cause for celebration, but rather a day of struggle and reclamation due to the absence of their loved ones. For almost 10 years, together with families of disappeared people, they have convened the March for National Dignity “Mothers looking for their sons, daughters, truth and justice”, to call attention to the fact that not everyone can celebrate this day as they wish, while demanding the need for truth and justice from the State.

“PBI arrived in Guerrero at a critical moment of State violence”

In the year 2000, at a time when there was still no international presence in the state of Guerrero, PBI began its first accompaniments to local human rights organisations. Five years had already passed since the first petitions for accompaniment were made to International Service for Peace (SIPAZ), located in Chiapas since the Zapatista uprising in 1994.