Last year, Mexico’s Attorney General’s office had identified 34 police officers as suspects in the rape, assault and brutal treatment of dozens of women in San Salvador Atenco in 2006. Five years later, none of the accused has been charged with the crime. President Felipe Calderón recently appointed a new Attorney General in Mexico. She [...]
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Urge Mexico’s new Attorney General to bring justice for the Women of Atenco
Posted in Mexico, Women's Rights, tagged online action, Women of Atenco on May 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Urgent Action – Indigenous leader and wife shot dead (Mexico)
Posted in Mexico, Urgent Action on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
25 May 2010 Further information on UA 110/10 (10 May 2010) – Fear for safety (PDF) MEXICO – Community of San Juan Copala On 20 May, indigenous leader, Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, and his wife, Cleriberta Castro Aguilar, were shot dead in their home in Yosoyuxi community, part of the “autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala” [...]
International Women’s Day: Take action for Women of Atenco
Posted in Mexico, tagged online action, Women of Atenco on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Marylou Noble, Group 48 Central America Regional Action Network Coordinator March 8th is International Women’s Day. I want to bring to your attention the case of women who were arrested as a result of their demonstration in defense of flower sellers in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, Mexico in 2006. Although this event occurred [...]
Mexican authorities replied to letters from members of Group 48
Posted in Group 48, Mexico on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back in November, Central American RAN Coordinator Marylou Noble brought copies of letters to the Group 48 meeting that were addressed to the Mexican authorities in regards to the treatment of migrants in north-eastern Mexico. The meeting attendees gladly signed the letters and Marylou put them into the mail. About a month later, several members [...]
Urgent Action – Zamora Gómez family (Mexico)
Posted in Mexico, Urgent Action on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
28 July 2009 UA 202/09 – Torture MEXICO – José Natividad Zamora Gómez (m), aged 25 Andrés Zamora Gómez (m), aged 27 Jorge Hernández Jardón (m), aged 24 Soldiers broke into the home of the Zamora Gómez family in Morelos state, central Mexico, and tortured three people. The soldiers searched the house and found no [...]
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