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Estadio Azteca and the 2026 World Cup in Mexico
15 de septiembre, por Comité Cerezo México

Suspended is different from cancelled, noted human rights activist Francisco Cerezo, and many think it’s only a matter of time before investors realign their forces and seek permits for another construction project.
Activists and residents surrounding the Azteca Stadium managed to suspend a (...)
IACHR says Mexican government committed serious errors in the investigation of the murder of lawyer Digna Ochoa
26 de enero de 2022, por Comité Cerezo México

Emiliana Cerezo Contreras says: “In 2001 my brothers were accused of putting bombs in several offices of the National Bank of Mexico, Banamex. Through some friends, my brother Alejandro got in contact with Pilar Noriega and Digna Ochoa, two lawyers who took on their cases. That is how the (...)
Oaxaca is number one in Mexico when it comes to murdered activists
11 de enero de 2022, por Comité Cerezo México

MEXICO, (January 6, 2022).- In 2021, seven activists were extrajudicially executed in Oaxaca, placing the entity as the one with the highest number of murdered defenders, according to a report published by the Cerezo Committee.
The activists executed in the state were:
– Fidel Heras Cruz (...)
Comité Cerezo raises concerns about Pegasus hacking software used against human rights defenders in Mexico
26 de julio de 2021, por Comité Cerezo México

Published by Brent Patterson on July 23, 2021
PBI-Mexico and PBI-Canada with Antonio Cerezo, September 2019.
On July 21, the Comité Cerezo México posted on their website: “At the time, four years ago, in 2017, we reported that we were sure that we had been targets of telephone spying, of (...)
REPORT: 14 Human Right Defenders were extrajudicially executed in 2020
15 de enero de 2021, por Comité Cerezo México

Summary
This report results from the documentation of Extrajudicial Executions (EXE) committed against Human Right Defenders (HRD) in Mexico, that Comité Cerezo México has done with no interruption since 2008. This report covers the beginning of the administration of Andrés Manuel López (...)
United Nations Special Rapporteurs express concerns about the Mayan Train megaproject in Mexico
25 de noviembre de 2020, por Comité Cerezo México

Published by Brent Patterson on November 25, 2020
n January 2019, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project commented: “The organizations that we accompany continue to be concerned about [Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s] position on the rights of indigenous populations, (...)
«The impunity that does not end»: The Cerezo Committee presents its annual report on human rights defenders in Mexico
18 de septiembre de 2020, por Comité Cerezo México

On the 24th of August, the organizations Acción Urgente para Defensores de Derechos Humanos A.C. (Urgent Action for Human rights Defenders – also known as ACCUDEH for its acronym in Spanish) , the Comité Cerezo México (Cerezo Committee Mexico) and the Campaña Nacional contra la Desaparición (...)
National: 107 Human Rights Violations against Defenders – Mexico Cerezo Committee
1ro de septiembre de 2020, por Comité Cerezo México

On August 24th, the Mexico Cerezo Committee presented its 9th Report, “Defend Human Rights in Mexico, Impunity That Does Not End”, that reflects the human rights violations (HRV) that were committed by the Mexican State against human rights defenders during the period from June 1st, 2019 to (...)
Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
11 de agosto de 2020, por Comité Cerezo México

Extract of article:
Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
Each day, human rights defenders speak out for the rights of others. And each day they risk their livelihoods, their liberty and in many cases their lives. As attacks, abductions, and assassinations increase in Latin America, we shine a (...)
Kidnapped by the state: Mexico’s political prisoners in the Covid-19 pandemic
2 de julio de 2020, por Comité Cerezo México

Eoin Wilson, an advocacy group calling for, among other things, the liberation of all political inmates and prisoners of
PBI-Canada and PBI-Mexico meet with Comite Cerezo
29 de junio de 2019, por Comité Cerezo México

Peace Brigades International-Canada Board member Paul Bocking writes, “Meeting with Antonio of Comite Cerezo, a human and labour rights group in Mexico City accompanied by Peace Brigades International – Mexico Project.”
The Alliance for Global Justice has explained, “Antonio and other family (...)
Highest number of human rights activists on record killed in 2018
8 de enero de 2019, por Comité Cerezo México

In total 321 people in 27 countries were targeted and killed for their work.
AN IRISH-BASED organisation has said human rights activists around the world continue to face threats from state, non-state and corporate actors and hundreds lost their lives because of their work last year.
In (...)
Open Letter to the European Union on the Criminalization of human rights defender Alejandro Cerezo
31 de octubre de 2018, por Comité Cerezo México

30 Oct, 2018 | EU-LAT, Geographic Areas, Human Rights and Justice Defenders, Mexico, News EU LAT Network has received reliable information about the deportationi of human rights defender Alejandro Cerezo Contreras, who is a beneficiary of protective measures from the Inter-American Commission (...)
#ADD your signature: Open Letter to elect President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
30 de julio de 2018, por Comité Cerezo México

We add our signature to this appeal to President Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to take account of of the Victims of human rights violations.
We consider that there are three indispensable aspects to human rights that the new government must take into account in order to initiate a real (...)

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Workers, FIGHT, RESISTANCE AND ORGANIZATION
2 de mayo de 2018, por Comité Cerezo México

By [Angélica Jocelyn Soto Espinosa->http://luchadoras.mx/author/jocelyn-soto
A few years ago, Guadalupe sweeping the floors of the halls of a high school in Mexico City; Ema was attending a patient in a public hospital in Chiapas; Olivia was preparing to leave in Sinaloa clean seafood; (...)
The Drug War Unmasked: Mexico’s Love Triangle
17 de septiembre de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

drug war, Free Trade Agreement, human rights violations, immigration policy, indigenous rights, Mexico, Militarization, War on Drugs
by Laura Krasovitzky “The war on drugs has in fact been a strategy to disguise social control and political repression, which serves to prevent and dislocate (...)
Press release: 6th Report on Human Rights Violations. Defending Human Rights in Mexico: Extrajudicial executions as the State’s response. (June 2016 to May 2017)
2 de septiembre de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

Mexico City, August 29, 2017
Thanks to the coordinated work of documentation by Urgent Action for Defenders of Human Rights (Acción Urgente para Defensores de los Derechos Humanos, or ACUDDEH AC for its initials in Spanish), the Comite Cerezo Mexico and the National Campaign Against Enforced (...)
Environmental defenders: who are they and how do we decide if they have died in defence of their environment?
13 de julio de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

Global Witness uses an extensive network of local contacts and other techniques to gather evidence every time a defender is reported as killed. Because so few killings happen in populous places, very few make the official list
• Read more from the environmental defenders project here. You (...)
Statement in response to the extrajudicial execution of Meztli Omixochitl Sarabia Reyna in Puebla, human rights defender and member of the Popular Union of Street Vendors (UPVA) “28 of October”
29 de junio de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

Statement in response to the extrajudicial execution of Meztli Omixochitl Sarabia Reyna in Puebla, human rights defender and member of the Popular Union of Street Vendors (UPVA) “28 of October”
Mexico City, June 29, 2017
We learned that Meztli Omixochitl Sarabia Reyna was executed (...)
ALL FREE - Urgent Action - Arbitrary detention of members of FNLS in the toll booth of Chiapa de Corzo, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas during an informative flyering session concerning the exhumation case of the minor Humberto Morales from the National Front in the Struggle for Socialism.
29 de junio de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

14:00 hrs. 30/06/2017THANK YOU TO YOUR SUPPORT ALL OF THE DETAINED HAVE LEFT FREEURGENT ACTION
AU-02-Chiapas/FNLS—29/junio/2017 Arbitrary detention of members of FNLS in the toll booth of Chiapa de Corzo, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas during an informative flyering session concerning the (...)
Families of Mexico’s disappeared mount protest
30 de mayo de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

30 de Mayo de 2017
Mexico City, May 30 (efe-epa).- Hundreds of relatives of people who disappeared while in the custody of police or soldiers marched in the Mexican capital on Tuesday to demand accountability for the fate of their loved ones.
Participants made their way from the Government (...)
Sign in repudiation of the extrajudicial execution of Humberto Morales, a 13 year old child and member of the FNLS in Chiapas
5 de marzo de 2017, por Comité Cerezo México

Urgent Action
AU-01-Chiapas/FNLS-04 de marzo de 2017
Extrajudicial Execution of Humberto Morales Sántiz, a 13-year-old child and member of the National Front for the Struggle for Socialism in Chiapas (FNLS for its initials in Spanish).
Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto Presidente de la República (...)
PBI reinforces support for Cerezo Committee after death threats
28 de diciembre de 2016, por Comité Cerezo México

27.12.2016
PBI reinforces support for Cerezo Committee after death threats
Mexico City, 27 december 2016.- PBI reiterates its concerns regarding the threats, harassment and persecution suffered by members of the Cerezo Committee in recent months. It is worth remembering that on September (...)
Mexican environmental grassroots protest: what does it mean to resist and defend the territory in a repressive context?
5 de diciembre de 2016, por Comité Cerezo México

Moreover, from June 2014 to the end of May 2015, the following incidents have been recorded: 459 arbitrary arrests; 330 cases of attacks, threats, harassment; 224 people denied freedom for political reasons; 459 documented cases of torture; 47 extrajudicial executions (ACUDDEH, Comité Cerezo (...)
«I want my husband back, and I want him alive»
30 de agosto de 2016, por Comité Cerezo México

By Sebastiana Pérez Hernández
Sebastiana has a sad look on her eyes.
For more than five months, she has been demanding the Mexican authorities find her husband Fidencio Gómez Sántiz. She wants him back, and alive. So far, her demands have been met with silence.
Sebastiana Pérez Hernández (...)
Mexico, a Democracy Where People Disappear at the Hands of the State
27 de agosto de 2016, por Comité Cerezo México

The Cerezo Committee is the leading Mexican organisation in the documentation of politically motivated or other forced disappearances.
By Daniela Pastrana
This article is part of IPS coverage of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, celebrated Aug. 30
MEXICO (...)
Mexico: Too Close to the US?
24 de marzo de 2016, por Comité Cerezo México

On another day, we met with Comite Cerezo at UNAM. The committee works with victims (including relatives) of arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killing and forced disappearance
By Ed Kinane and Ann Tiffany, Speakout | Op-Ed
This past November, during its 25th annual convergence at Fort (...)
Urgent Action: Enforced disappearance of Fidencio Gómez Sántiz (indigenous member of Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) in Ocosingo, Chiapas
24 de marzo de 2016, por Comité Cerezo México

Urgent Action: Enforced disappearance of Fidencio Gómez Sántiz (indigenous member of Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) in Ocosingo, Chiapas
AU-02-Chiapas / FNLS-23 / March / 2016
Mexico City, March 23, 2016
Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto President of Mexico Miguel Ángel Osorio (...)
Mexico: Security concern for members of the National Front for Socialism
18 de noviembre de 2015, por Comité Cerezo México

On 16 November 2015, the National Front for Socialism initiated a second round of activities in Mexico City to denounce the situation faced by indigenous human rights defenders in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico.
During a campaign launched the previous week, human rights defenders (...)
URGENT ACTION: Attempted extrajudicial killing in Mexico City of Matias Flores, indigenous Nahuatl of Human Rights Committee of the Huasteca and Eastern Sierra (CODHHSO en espanol); Jesus Hernandez Reyes and Rubicel Hernandez Garcia, indigenous Nahuatl, members of the National Socialist Front (FNLS en espanol) for denouncing the extrajudicial killing in Chiapas of Hector Santiz Lopez.
7 de noviembre de 2015, por Comité Cerezo México

AU-06-DF/-FNLS—07/november/2015
URGENT ACTION: Attempted extrajudicial killing in Mexico City of Matias Flores, indigenous Nahuatl of Human Rights Committee of the Huasteca and Eastern Sierra (CODHHSO en espanol); Jesus Hernandez Reyes and Rubicel Hernandez Garcia, indigenous Nahuatl, (...)

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