URGENT ACTION CEREZO COMMITTEE/ACUDDEH
Death threats against human rights defenders of COMITÉ CEREZO MÉXICO (Cerezo Committee), ACUDDEH (granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission) and their families.
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PBI Mexico: Mother's caravan for missing migrants arrives in Mexico City
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PBI Mexico: One year anniversary of the Inter-American Court sentences in the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú
On October 1 2010 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights informed the Mexican state of its sentences in the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú. Both verdicts stated that in 2002 the indigenous Me´phaa women had been raped and tortured by members of the army in the state of Guerrero, Mexico.
PBI Mexico: IACHR WRAPS UP VISIT TO MEXICO
PRESS RELEASE
N° 105/11
IACHR WRAPS UP VISIT TO MEXICO
Mexico City, September 30, 2001—The Office of the Rapporteur for Mexico of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) carried out a working visit to Mexico September 26-30, 2011. The delegation was made up of the IACHR Rapporteur for Mexico, Commissioner Rodrigo Escobar Gil; the coordinator of the Mesoamerican Region, Isabel Madariaga; and human rights specialist Fiorella Melzi.