Download the entire Chapter on Mexico : Human Right Watch 2010 World Report
The organization's 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights trends in more than 90 nations and territories worldwide, reflecting the extensive investigative work carried out in 2009 by Human Rights Watch staff.
Amnesty International written statement to the thirteenth session of the UN Human Rights Council (1-26 March 2010)
Amnesty International expresses its continued appreciation of the work of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia to improve respect for human rights and international humanitarian law in the country. Amnesty International also supports the renewal of the Office’s mandate when its current mandate expires at the end of October 2010.
Download the 2010 Amnesty Report on Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
The Mexican authorities are failing in their duty to protect human rights defenders from killings and life-threatening harassment and attacks, Amnesty International warned in a new report presented in the Ciudad de Mexico, on 21 January 2010.
Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero,8th of February 2010
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A Mexican Federal Court today ordered the release of Juan Manuel Martinez due to lack of evidence. He had been detained since 2008 for the murder of US video journalist Brad Will who was shot when filming a confrontation between protesters and local police during the social conflict in Oaxaca in 2006.
INTRODUCTION
The impact of Colombia’s long-running internal armed conflict on Indigenous
Peoples has been profound and destructive. They have been killed, harassed and driven from their lands by all the parties to the conflict. Despite their determined refusal to be drawn into the hostilities, the threats facing Indigenous Peoples are intensifying.
Bogota, 18 January, 2010 - A recent string of newspaper articles in the international and Colombian national media attacking Peace Brigades International (PBI) and the organisations we accompany in Colombia is cause for great concern.