As part of our activities for JASS Mesoamerica's 16 days of activism campaign we are presenting a series of mini-documentaries produced by the Nobel Women's Initiative (NWI) Women Crossing the Line: Women Defenders in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala in coordination with allied organizations in the region.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

a joint programme of

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

in partnership with

CIDSE, Franciscans International, Peace Brigades International (PBI)

Chihuahua City, Mexico – On November 6, Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project (PBI Mexico) facilitated a meeting between five European embassies in Mexico and representatives from civil society organizations from the states of Chihuahua and Coahuila. The objective of the meeting was to publicize the risk situation that HRDs continue to face and the state of human rights in the north of Mexico.

Paris, 2 July, 2014.

PBI: You have recently taken up the post of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (June, 2014). Have you identified priorities (geographic or thematic) for the next few months? Have you scheduled any field visits?

Situation in Guerrero:

PBI expresses profound concern for the security of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, accompanied by PBI since 2003, and for the Guerrero Network of Civil Society Organizations and the Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon Regional Human Rights Center, all of which accompany students from the “Raul Isidro Burgos” Rural Teachers School of Ayotzinapa and families of the 43 students who disappeared on the nights of September 26-27, 2014.

Mexico City, November 6, 2014

Baroness Catherine Ashton

High Representative of the European Union

for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Ms Federica Mogherini

Designated High Representative of the European

Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy