PBI Mexico: Reopening of the office of the Human Rights Center of the Mountain (CHRM) Tlachinollan in Ayutla.
On June 16 reopening the office of the Center for Human Rights Tlachinollan in Ayutla, Guerrero state.
Gazette: Colombian lawyers under threat, report claims, 2 June 2011
Six judges, 12 prosecutors and 334 defence lawyers were murdered in Colombia’s ‘judicial war’ between 2003 and 2009, a report by a delegation of British and international lawyers has claimed.
The report, published last week, found that Colombian lawyers still live in constant fear of assassination, and of verbal and physical threats from guerrilla groups, paramilitaries and members of the armed forces.
PBI Mexico: New Bulletin How Many More?
With this special bulletin, PBI aims to provide information on the process to achieve a governmental protection mechanism that can guarantee the physical and psychological integrity and the ongoing work of Mexican HRDs. Unless HRDs have sufficient political space and safety guarantees to be able to promote social change, Mexico's democratic transition will be seriously compromised. A protection mechanism is therefore both urgent and necessary.
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PBI Mexico: Migrants’ shelter “ Frontera Digna” in Piedras Negras, Coahuila is at risk after a member of staff was attaked.
Peace Brigades International (PBI) Mexico would like to express its concern for the safety of staff and residents of the migrants' shelter "Digna Frontera" in Piedras Negras, Coahuila run by Father José Guadalupe Valdes, who are at risk after a staff member was attacked and threatened on Monday 9 May.
PBI Mexico. Report Cedhapi. Three years of impunity in Santo Domingo Ixcatlán
On the 30th of April, 2008, the small community of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, located in the Mixteca region of the State of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, was shaken by the news of a triple homicide. Amnesty International reported that dozens of armed men headed by the former Mayor of Ixcatlán, Freddy Eucario Morales Arias, brutally murdered three members of the community: Gustavo Castañeda Hernández, Melesio Martínez Robles and Inocencio Medina Bernabé.