Mexico City, 10 December 2015.– PBI celebrates Human Rights Day 2015 with launch of Women Human Rights Defenders campaign.
“As a woman, this work isn’t easy. You have to manoeuvre, argue and put up with three times more than a man to be able to speak up and be heard.” – Silvia Méndez, Paso del Norte Human Rights Centre
Mexico City, 10 December 2015.– PBI and several other NGOs wrote a letter to all Member States of the United Nations General Assembly requesting for a vote in favour of a Human Rights Defenders Resolution in the General Assembly Plenary.
Download the letter.
VOTE IN FAVOUR OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS RESOLUTION IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLENARY
Excellencies,
Mexico City, 8 December 2015.– Joint Statement: Human Rights Organizations Express Support To Advance Investigation Into 43 Disappeared Students In Mexico
Mexico City, 5 November 2015.– Don't miss our monthly Information Pack for October!
News include topics such as the UNHCHR visit to Mexico, Casa Del Migrante de Saltillo tour to Europe, Boston University Human Rights Clinic visit to Mexico, a video interview with Alberto Xicotencatl, Merida Initiative, and an interview with Lucha Castro from Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres
Mexico City, 2 November 2015.– Between May and December 2015, PBI Mexico will publish a series of interviews with Human Rights Defenders which we accompany or with whom we maintain a close relationship. This month we present an interview with Lucha Castro, co-founder and coordinator of the Centre for the Human Rights of Women (CEDEHM), from Chihuahua.
(Washington D.C) - The President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has labelled as ‘a total disgrace’ the failure of States in the Americas to adequately protect defenders of rights to land, territory and environment, after hearing the testimony of defenders representing a coalition of 39 organisations, at a landmark hearing in Washington D.C.
Mexico City, 9 October 2015.– Between May and December 2015, PBI Mexico will publish a series of interviews with Human Rights Defenders which we accompany or with whom we maintain a close relationship. This month we present an interview with Silvia Rodriguez and Raul Reyes, members of United Forces for Our Disappeared Persons in Coahuila (FUUNDEC), and both of them searching for their children.