Tags Share According to a recent poll, 50% of students say they are not engaged in what they are learning and 80% of educators are worried about students’ lack of engagement. Theater work, like the recent theater workshop in Sonora, Mexico, can increase student engagement and empower them to become human rights defenders. In March,…
Tags Share Claudina Isabel’s body was discovered on August 13, 2005 with signs of sexual violence. The Guatemalan government’s impunity and ineffective investigation into her murder is, unfortunately, representative of a broader failure of the government to stem the tide of femicide and violence against women in the country. Read more about our work on…
Tags Share Today, the Mexican government is signing a compliance agreement, issuing a public apology, and recognizing their responsibility for the inaction, impunity, and negligence in the case of Silvia Elena Rivera Morales et al. v. Mexico. Ahead of the ceremony, here are five things to know about the key case. Amidst a backdrop of…
Tags Share Las organizaciones abajo firmantes expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la falta de esclarecimiento y sanción hasta la fecha de los actos de criminalización, incluyendo la obtención indebida de registros telefónicos, a las defensoras de derechos humanos Ana Lorena Delgadillo (directora y fundadora de la Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de…
Tags Share The undersigned organizations express our deep concern at the continuing lack of accountability for acts of criminalization, including undue investigation of cell phone records, against human rights defenders Ana Lorena Delgadillo (director and founder of the Foundation for Justice and the Democratic Rule of Law (FJEDD)), Mercedes Doretti (scientist and expert in cases…
When Mexico’s war on drugs turns on its most vulnerable: sexual violence perpetrated by members of the Mexican army against a 73-year-old Indigenous woman.
Tags Share Their stories were familiar. Their anger and frustration were palpable. “She never made contact again.” “There were men outside our house with guns, and I did not know whether they were to protect us or hurt us.” “That is where the earth ate her.” In a hotel meeting room in Toreón, Mexico, 20…
Tags Share Washington D.C y Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero – El 20 de junio de 2009, fue ejecutado extrajudicialmente en un retén militar el joven nahua Bonfilio Rubio Villegas por elementos del ejército mexicano. Su caso, como muchos otros en el país, se vio fuertemente marcado por un contexto de pobreza, desigualdad, militarización e impunidad.…
In June 2009, Bonfilio Rubio Villegas was extrajudicially executed at a military checkpoint. His case, like so many others, was characterized by a context of poverty, inequality, militarization, and impunity.
At a gathering of Mexico’s top business leaders, including the CEOs of Nestlé Mexico and Philip Morris Mexico, Kerry Kennedy called for their support to protect civic space.
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