LATEST: Mexico – Human Rights Conspicuously Absent from President Claudia Sheinbaum’s First Report

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LATEST: Mexico – Human Rights Conspicuously Absent from President Claudia Sheinbaum’s First Report

On September 1st, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo presented her First Government Report. Among the achievements, she highlighted that Mexico was better positioned than other countries in the face of the new tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump: “Mexico has the lowest average percentage of tariffs in the world, and we continue working with the various government ministries of our neighboring country. We are convinced that, within the framework of the Trade Agreement, we can achieve even better conditions.”
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Oaxaca City, November 2024 © CIMAC
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FOCUS: Tenth Hearing of Mexican State before CEDAW

On July 7th, 2025, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) published its concluding observations and recommendations following the preparation and review of Mexico's tenth periodic report, presented on June 17th and 18th, 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland. Mexico was also evaluated on compliance with and implementation of the recommendations the Committee made in its previous report, presented in July 2018.
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Sheinbaum and the Mexico-US relationship © Radiorama
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LATEST: Tense Tug-of-war in Relations between Mexico and United States

Negotiations between Mexico and the United States have become a constant since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January of this year, within a relationship marked by political, economic, and military asymmetry.
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ARTICLE: Documenting to Make Visible – El Obse de Chiapas Confronting Violence Against Human Rights Defenders

The situation in Chiapas presents a panorama marked by serious human rights violations. In recent years, the state has experienced an alarming increase in forced displacement, disappearances, the presence of armed groups, drug and human trafficking, and political violence.
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Presentation of the report "Chiapas, in the spiral of armed and criminal violence" © Frayba
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FOCUS: “Chiapas in the Spiral of Armed and Criminal Violence”

On March 19th, in the framework of its 36th anniversary, the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) presented its report "Chiapas, in the Spiral of Armed and Criminal Violence (Between Governmental Chaos, Organized Crime and the Paths of Struggle and Resistance)", which aims to leave a record of what happened in the state during the period from January 2023 to June 2024.
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March of mothers searching their missing family members, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, May 2025 © SIPAZ
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LATEST: Mexico Faces Multiple Human Rights Challenges amid Global Instability

The relationship between Mexico and the United States has historically been complex, with strong aspects of cooperation and interdependence, but also with trade tensions and sovereignty disputes that have been particularly significant since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January, 2025.
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Demonstration against the deportation policy © Europa Press / La Gaceta.es
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NEWS: Mexico — a political agenda marked by the decrees of US President Donald Trump

Since taking office in January, US President Donald Trump has signed a host of executive orders, several of them with strong immediate or potential impacts worldwide and, in particular, in Mexico.
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Thousands of people of different nationalities prayed before moving forward in a new migrant caravan with the hope of reaching the United States. At the front, some carried a wooden cross, with a banner that read: "the exodus of poverty" © Damián Sánchez/cuartoscuro.com
21/12/2024
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LATEST: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States” …

The elections in the United States revive the saying: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” The elected candidate, Donald Trump, has declared that he will impose a 25% tariff war against Mexico if Claudia Sheinbaum’s government fails to contain the flow of migrants and fentanyl trafficking across the 3,000 kilometers of border that both countries share.
21/12/2024
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Activities for our missing people within the framework of Mother's Day, San Cristóbal de las Casas, May 2024 © SIPAZ
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FOCUS: I name you, Mexico, a country of disappeared people

For some years now, various human rights organizations and groups of searching families have been documenting and denouncing the crisis of disappearances in Mexico. In 2023, people spoke with surprise about the alarming figure that had been reached: 100 thousand missing people; today there are more than 116 thousand.
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Event on Peacebuilding, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, December 2023 © SIPAZ
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LATEST: Human Rights – Pending agenda for candidates for the 2024 elections

In September, the National Peace Dialogue was held in Puebla, after talks and Justice and Security Forums were held in the states in which more than 18 thousand people participated in the last ten months.
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