27/09/2023

LATEST: Mexico, Continued Insecurity

In June, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) recognized that during his government recorded homicides have exceeded those of previous administrations. In 2019, 34,690 murders were recorded, in 2020, 34,554, in 2021, 33,308 and in 2022, 30,968, while in the first quarter of 2023 there were 9,912, an average of 83 per day.
13/12/2022

FOCUS: Forced Disappearance in Mexico, the Ayotzinapa Case

According to the Mexican Federation of Public Human Rights Organisms, 105,871 missing persons have been reported in Mexico since 1964, a figure that includes episodes such as the Dirty War in Guerrero and the Zapatista conflict in Chiapas.
04/06/2022

FOCUS: Violence Crisis Crosses the Right to Freedom of Expression in Mexico

The murders of the journalists Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana Garcia Olvera, which occurred on May 9th, 2022 in Veracruz, as well as that of Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos, a journalist and political analyst who was kidnapped and murdered just four days earlier in the north of the country, brought the toll of communicators executed in Mexico to 11 so far in 2022.
03/10/2021

LATEST: Mexico – June 6th Elections, biggest and most violent in history

Mexico held elections on June 6th, which were estimated to be the biggest in the country's history, since more than 20,000 popularly elected positions were contested; among them 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, the governments of 15 states and thousands of positions in local congresses and city councils.
09/06/2021

LATEST: Midterm Elections – Dispute for the Continuity of the Fourth Transformation

On June 6th, elections will be held in Mexico in which 500 councils and more than 20,300 local offices will be decided, including 15 governorships. They will be held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
18/03/2021

FOCUS: Human rights in the hands of corporate goodwill

Globalization in today's world has resulted in changes at both the micro and macro levels, with pros and cons, including new challenges when it comes to the protection of human rights (HR). The globalized world has reshaped economic powers into a world in which multinational companies have especially come to gain unprecedented power and influence.
18/03/2021

LATEST: Mexico – “A long way to go to exit human rights crisis”, Government

On December 10th, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Report “Second Year, A New Human Rights Policy and Presentation of the National Human Rights Program” was presented by the Ministry of the Interior.
15/12/2020

LATEST: COVID-19 – Health, economic and social Impacts increase

In August, Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Depart-ment, pointed out that the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic could be underestimated in Mexico due to the low number of tests carried out.