Not every family can celebrate Mother's Day in the same way. In Mexico, thousands of mothers spend the 10th of May like any other day: searching for their loved ones and demanding authorities to investigate the disappearances. This Sunday, like last year, volunteers of Peace Brigades International (PBI) will accompany the "March for Dignity" in Mexico City. Regarding the occasion PBI published this analysis.
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 Mendez, member of the Paso del Norte Human Rights Center, from Ciudad Juarez.
Mexico City, 16 April 2015.- After another bilateral High-Level Dialogue on Human Rights between the European Union (EU) and Mexico, Civil Society Organizations from both the EU and Mexico presented their conclusions which may be consulted here (available only in Spanish).
Mexico City, 26 March 2015.- Six Months after Disappearance of 43 Students in Mexico, Citizens and International Community Still Seek Justice
Mexican Government Must Support Work of International Experts
March 16th, 2015 – Several international organizations express deep concern regarding recent reports according to which, members of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre, as well as other human rights organisations and the families and friends of the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa, continue to suffer security incidents, putting their physical and psychological integrity at risk.
Geneva, 18 February 2015. On 13 February 2015, the concluding observations of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) review of Mexico were released,[1] following the review of the first report submitted by Mexico, which took place on 2 and 3 February, in the framework of the 8th session of the CED[2].
