PBI Mexico: The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights grants precautionary measures to Juan Manual Martinez Moreno
Oaxaca.- The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (ICHR) has ordered precautionary measures in favour of Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno and his family, requesting the Mexican Government to adopt the necessary means to guarantee their lives and physical integrity.
PBI Mexico: New threats against Father Solalinde and migrant rights defenders
On November 11, in the state of Oaxaca, José Alberto Donis of the 'Hermanos en el Camino' migrant shelter, suffered physical aggressions and death threats against both himself and his colleague Father Alejandro Solalinde. These attacks represent an increase in the risk which risks for the staff of the shelter, which provides humanitarian and legal aid to migrants. PBI would like to communicate its profound concern for the security of Father Solalinde and his colleagues.
PBI Mexico Interview with Father Solalinde: “The Mexican State should stop criminalising humanitarian assistance”
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The Guardian: My legal hero: Dr Alirio Uribe Muñoz, 17 November 2010
A Colombian human rights lawyer, Uribe fights for the oppressed in a country where such work attracts deadly enemies
PBI Mexico: Radilla Sentence: International Bar Association demands implementation
The International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has written to Mexican President Felipe Calderón to demand that the Mexican State fully comply with the sentence emitted by the Inter American Court of Human Rights in the case of the forced disappearance of Rosendo Radilla.
PBI Mexico: See the documentaries by Gael García and Amnesty International about migrants in Mexico
Amnesty International and Mexican actor and producer Gael García Bernal, have launched a series of films depicting the plight of irregular migrants in Mexico.
SUPPORT NETWORK ACTIVATION - Threats against groups accompanied by PBI
On this occasion, we are writing to selected contacts of PBI Guatemala Project Support Network to express our concern about a dramatic increase in SERIOUS THREATS against Guatemalan human rights defenders that we accompany. The threats are happening in the context of their work promoting economic, social, cultural and environmental rights, and the right of indigenous peoples to be informed and consulted before approval is given to large-scale development projects that affect them and their lands.
PBI concerned by surveillance and interception of human rights defenders communications
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is an international non-governmental organisation founded in 1981, which promotes the protection of human rights and peace by supporting the work of human rights defenders in Indonesia, Nepal, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia.