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Highest number of human rights activists on record killed in 2018
8 de enero, 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 2018, (...)
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 and (...)

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

By Angélica Jocelyn Soto Espinosa
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; Brenda and decorating products in a maquila of (...)
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 can (...)
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 exhumation (...)
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 Miguel (...)
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 30, (...)
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 is a (...)
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 CITY, (...)
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 Chong (...)
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 Matías (...)
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, members (...)
Forced Disappearance, a Cancer Eating Away at Mexico
25 de septiembre de 2015, por Comité Cerezo México

Héctor Cerezo of the Cerezo Committee said the disappearance of the teachers college students from Ayotzinapa occurred in the context of this strategy of social control.
By Daniela Pastrana
IGUALA, Mexico, Sep 24 2015 (IPS) - The soup kitchen of the San Gerardo parish in the southwestern (...)
#Join Add your signature to support legislation for a General Law to Prevent, Investigate, Punish, and Redress the Enforced Disappearance of Persons and the Disappearance of Persons Committed by Private Citizens.
14 de septiembre de 2015, por Comité Cerezo México

September 8, 2015
#Join (Hashtag in Spanish: #Súmate) the National and International Signature Campaign to support the proposed General Law to Prevent, Investigate, Punish, and Redress the Enforced Disappearance of Persons and the Disappearance of Persons Committed by Private Citizens. This (...)
"Our wish is that the US see us as equals:" A Q&A with Comité Cerezo (Mexico)
14 de agosto de 2015, por Comité Cerezo México

1. 21 years after NAFTA went into effect, neoliberalism is still making inroads (is alive and well) in Mexico. Over the last year or so, structural reforms were passed, which largely favor corporate interests and privatization of public goods. During that same time, torture, forced (...)
Positioning on the need to legislate a General Law on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Forced Disappearance of Persons by the National Campaign Against Forced Disappearance
30 de mayo de 2015, por Comité Cerezo México

Mexico City May 30th, 2015
As members of the National Campaign Against Forced Disappearances in Mexico, drivers from four years of the necessity of a general law against forced disappearance ago, we externalize our positioning around the initiatives presented by various political parties in (...)
Mexican protesters: Police threatened to dismember, burn us ‘like the Ayotzinapa students’
3 de diciembre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

“This is a problem that has been dragging on in Mexico since the beginning of President Pena Nieto’s administration,” said Hector Cerezo, one of the founders of the human rights group. “It´s almost as if the government is trying to scare people from attending protests.”
Human rights groups are (...)
#AYOTZINAPA The terrorism of the State and the human rights of the victims.
13 de noviembre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

After listening the press conference given by the Solicitor General of the Republic, his refusal to admit the Ayotzinapa case as a State crime made evident to us that the severe human rights violation against the Ayozinapa normalistas students will not be –as they have not been- treated as their (...)
Mexico: Rampant State Impunity Fuels the Fires of #Ayotzinapa
8 de noviembre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

“Defenders of human rights are being threatened, harassed because of the work they are doing in Mexico in their fight against mega projects and structural reforms. The state is generating a climate of criminalization, beating, threatening unofficial executions and enforced disappearances,” said (...)
Neither state’s absence nor isolated fact: #Ayotzinapa is the result of the State’s criminal politics.
24 de octubre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

The attack, the illegal execution and forced disappearance perpetrated in Iguala against the Ayotzinapa normalistas students are neither the result of the State’s absence nor an isolated fact nor the outcome of bad functionaries. By no means it can be ascribed to the infiltration of the drug (...)
Mexico’s Cocktail of Political and Narco-Violence and Poverty
17 de octubre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 2014 (IPS) - The images filled the front pages of Mexico’s newspapers: 61 half-dressed state policemen kneeling, with their hands tied, in the main square of the town of Tepatepec in the central state of Hidalgo, while local residents threatened to burn them alive.
It was (...)
"Security" in Mexico doesn’t apply to many human rights defenders
10 de septiembre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

by Maggie Ervin
Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, had a way a talking that sounded a bit like George W. Bush, which is to say unapologetically bellicose. As soon as his term started, he declared a War on Drug Trafficking, and quickly put it into full military action. By (...)
National: Report on human rights in Mexico (from June 2013 to May 2014)
10 de septiembre de 2014, por Comité Cerezo México

On August 30, the Report “Defending human rights in Mexico: A struggle against impunity (from June 2013 to May 2014)” was presented in Mexico City. It’s based on the work of documentation of Urgent Action for the Defense of Human Rights (ACUDDEH AC), Comité Cerezo Mexico and the National Campaign (...)

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