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.

Mexico City, September 28th 2014 – The Mexico Project is looking for new volunteers for the 2016 selection process. Applications will be accepted until November 2, 2015. Please contact the Training Committee to send in your application or with any questions. Find out more here.

We share an update about the increase in threats and intimidations against the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya, San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, in the Department of Guatemala.

Mexico City, 2 September 2015.– PBI co-wrote with ISHR a new report that concludes that States must consult human rights defenders when developing laws and policies to tackle organised crime and drugs problems, and should sanction authorities who defame activists through smear campaigns.

Mexico City, 1 September 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 Blanca Martinez, director of the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center for Human Rights of Saltillo, Coahuila.

Mexico City, 20 August 2015.–  With two open letters, one addressed to the Mexican Government and the other to the Interamerican Human Rights Commission, International Organizations - amongst which PBI - have displayed their support regarding the request of the International Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) of the Interamerican Human Rights Commission, to extend their mandate to provide technical assistance for the investigations of the Ayotzinapa case in which 43 students were disappeared.