Human rights in Mexico
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Human Rights in Mexico have been an issue for years. The problems include torture
, police repression, sexual murder, and, more recently, news reporter assassinations.
, Chihuahua, have been sexually murdered. The death toll of serially related murders in Juárez is climbing past 400, and many women are simply missing according to local news articles. The city of Juárez homicide-disappearance rate for women is 38 times higher than all of the homicides in common North American statistics.
Women and young girls from every occupation and age, especially girls on their way to school waiting for their bus in the morning and women working the second shift walking home before dawn from their factories' bus stops are quite vulnerable The most seriously threatened group is primarily 12 to 21 years of age due to a breakdown of the family according to Chihuahua Institute of the Woman.
, subject to a paramilitary blockade since January were ambushed by Ubisort
-militia. Two were killed, and twelve are missing.
Torture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
, police repression, sexual murder, and, more recently, news reporter assassinations.
Sexual murder in Ciudad Juárez
Since 1992, hundreds of women of Ciudad JuárezCiudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...
, Chihuahua, have been sexually murdered. The death toll of serially related murders in Juárez is climbing past 400, and many women are simply missing according to local news articles. The city of Juárez homicide-disappearance rate for women is 38 times higher than all of the homicides in common North American statistics.
Women and young girls from every occupation and age, especially girls on their way to school waiting for their bus in the morning and women working the second shift walking home before dawn from their factories' bus stops are quite vulnerable The most seriously threatened group is primarily 12 to 21 years of age due to a breakdown of the family according to Chihuahua Institute of the Woman.
2010 UBISORT ambush at San Juan Copala
On 26 April 2010 several human rights activists on their way to San Juan CopalaSan Juan Copala
San Juan Copala is a little town in the municipality of Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, inhabited by Trique Indians. Its inhabitants have declared themselves autonomous of the Mexican state and founded the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala in 2006.It has been the...
, subject to a paramilitary blockade since January were ambushed by Ubisort
Ubisort
Ubisort y MULT are two paramilitary groups in Oaxaca, Mexico affiliated with the ruling PRI-party....
-militia. Two were killed, and twelve are missing.
See also
- National Human Rights Commission (Mexico)National Human Rights Commission (Mexico)Mexico's National Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution accredited at the United Nations with 'A' status by the International Co-ordinating Committee of NHRIs . It is a member of the Network of National Institutions in the Americas, one of four regional groups within...
- Tlatelolco MassacreTlatelolco massacreThe Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco , was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City...
- Aguas Blancas massacreAguas Blancas massacreThe Aguas Blancas Massacre was a massacre that took place on 28 June 1995, in Aguas Blancas, Guerrero, Mexico, in which, according to the official version, seventeen farmers were killed and 21 injured...
- Digna OchoaDigna OchoaDigna Ochoa was a human rights lawyer in Mexico. She was born in Misantla, in the state of Veracruz.- Biography :...
- Lydia CachoLydia CachoLydia Cacho Ribeiro is a Mexican journalist and feminist and human rights activist. She is a member of the Red Internacional de Periodistas con Visión de Género.-Biography:...
- 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco2006 civil unrest in San Salvador AtencoThe civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco of 2006 began on Wednesday, May 3, when police prevented a group of 60 flower vendors from selling at the Texcoco local market in the State of México, about from Mexico City. Police used violence and arrest against resisters...
- Capital punishment in MexicoCapital punishment in MexicoCapital punishment in Mexico last non-military execution in Mexico was in 1937, and was officially abolished in 2005. Despite the existence of an abolitionist movement dating back to the 19th century, the popularity of the punishment has increased due to the increasingly violent drug...
External links
- Review of Mexico by the United Nations Human Rights CouncilUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilThe United Nations Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations System. The UNHRC is the successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights , and is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly...
's Universal Periodic Review, February 10, 2009 - Human Rights - Mexico - Amnesty International - Mexico Concerns
- Freedom of expression in Mexico - IFEX
- CNDH - National Human Rights Commission (Mexico)National Human Rights Commission (Mexico)Mexico's National Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution accredited at the United Nations with 'A' status by the International Co-ordinating Committee of NHRIs . It is a member of the Network of National Institutions in the Americas, one of four regional groups within...