The Mexican petitioners [...] listed four frequent types of perpetrators: (1) military members, (2) persons in uniform, (3) paramilitary troops, and (4) persons who are highly armed and can maintain control over an area through violence and intimidation. Complete impunity for perpetrators allows the government to cover up and refuse to recognize these crimes, the petitioners said.
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Forced Disappearances in the Americas
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Worldwide clamor: Where are they?
2 January 2013, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoWith Comité Cerezo’s advising, the families prepared a detailed account of the youths’ disappearance and a review of the PGR and PGJ’s performance. The document was presented to the UN Committee of Enforced Disappearances, whose leaders accepted it, according to notification on November 10th.
For over five months they have spread the news throughout Europe and Canada about the disappearance of Ana Belém Sánchez Mayorga, Luis Enrique Castañeda Nava Maldonado and his cousin Diego Castañeda. (…) -
Killers in high places - Drugs, gangs, and Harper’s war on the poor
1ro de enero de 2013, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe human rights organization Comité Cerezo, itself under accompaniment protection because of death threats it has received, has documented a significant rise in politically motivated disappearances and extrajudicial executions by state-connected agents since the launch of the U.S.-funded Merida Initiative in 2008.
When 27-year-old Daniel Davis was gunned down by a gang member in Scarborough in July 2012, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced it was “time to declare war” on gangs. The _Toronto (…) -
Calderon’s Memorial for Victims, a new disdain to the victims
28 November 2012, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoCivil society organizations, social movements and victims strongly reject the Memorial proposed by President Calderon
MEXICO CITY, November 27 2012. – According to media reports, the Federal government has announced the forthcoming inauguration of a Memorial to the Victims of violence in Mexico, at a public event whose date and content remain unknown. The Memorial, located between Reforma and Periférico (two main streets in Mexico City) on land annexed to a military facility called “Campo (…) -
PBI Mexico: Ten years accompanying the Cerezo Committee
12 September 2012, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe Cerezo Committee celebrated its 11th anniversary on August 13th, during the last ten years of which they have received PBI accompaniment. Since its foundation, the Committee has received 13 death threats and continued harassment. Stigmatization has closed many doors for them, especially during the early years. PBI celebrates the Cerezo Committee’s anniversary and applauds and support the work of Committee members in favor of human rights in Mexico.
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Mexican activist wins German peace prize
2 September 2012, by Comité Cerezo México"This is recognition of a collective 11-year effort that has been marked by death threats, harassment and the denunciation of issues that few organizations, unfortunately, document," such as forced disappearances, extralegal executions and imprisonment for political reasons, Cerezo told Efe.
Alejandro Cerezo received Germany’s Aachen peace prize on behalf of Comite Cerezo, which works to defend human rights in Mexico.
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Participation of Elga Aguilar of Comité Cerezo Mexico in the presence of Nobel Laureate Jody Williams
22 January 2012, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoI am member of a mixed organization called Comité Cerezo México. Its origin was the illegal detention, torture and imprisonment in maximum security prisons of three brothers in 2001: Alejandro, Héctor and Antonio Cerezo Contreras, along with a náhuatl indigenous man named Pablo Alvarado Flores, all of whom were also accused of terrorism and organized delinquency after a process plagued with irregularities. In the beginning the conformation of the organization was carried out by friends and (…)
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Death threats against human rights defenders of COMITÉ CEREZO MÉXICO (Cerezo Committee), ACUDDEH (granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission) and their families.
9 de noviembre de 2011, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoDeath threats against human rights defenders of COMITÉ CEREZO MÉXICO (Cerezo Committee), ACUDDEH (granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission) and their families.
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On November 8 at 12:38 PM, a message containing death threats arrived in the electronic mail account comitecerezo@nodo50.org, the address of the human rights organization Comité Cerezo México. The following are excerpts from the message:
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Interview with the Cerezo Committe, "Violation that is not documented, violation that does not exist"
27 September 2011, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoEntrevistas is a publication of PBI Mexico that highlights issues regarding the defense of human rights, focusing on those situations that increase risks to the physical or psychological integrity of Mexican human rights defenders, or that damage the legitimacy of their work. The opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the opinions of PBI Mexico.
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Another campesino environmentalist murdered
5 de mayo de 2011, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoAccording to the human rights nongovernmental organization Committee Cerezo, Torres Cruz was a victim of drug trafficker Rogaciano Alva Álvarez, because the environmentalist was one of the witnesses of the 2001 killing of human rights activist Digna Ochoa, which Alva Álvarez´s alleged hit men have been involved in, a case that still hasn´t been resolved. The group says Torres Cruz and his relatives had been threatened six times since 2009
OAS human rights body demands government to (…)