15/12/2020
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.
19/12/2019
September marked three months since the governments of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and Donald Trump reached an agreement in which Mexico undertook measures to lower the level of migration that crosses its territory to reach the United States.
22/06/2019
On May 17th, the United Nations Organization Committee against Torture (CAT) gave its verdict after the evaluation of the matter to which Mexico submitted itself in the month of April.
13/03/2019
In November of 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (now ratified by all countries except the United States). The document, which rapidly became the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, lays out the rights of children (defined as anyone under the age of 18) and the duties that states have to protect these rights. The stated reality that children have inalienable human rights contrasts with older ideas of children being passive beings who need only to be cared for.
11/12/2018
October 19, 2018 marked the day in which the migrant exodus, popularly known as the migrant caravan, made the migration phenomenon of Central America visible in an unexpected way.
11/12/2018
Since October 19, thousands of migrants including women, children, and the elderly have begun entering Mexico in caravans with the intention of reaching the United States
14/07/2018
The worldwide migration crisis is undeniable and has been exacerbated by laws and agreements focused only on the control of the borders of the countries that receive migrants and refugees, and not on respect for human rights, a value that all nations say they share.
14/07/2018
In April, the Senate ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP-11 or CPTPP), Mexico being the first country of those participating to do so.