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Mexico: enforced disappearances under NGO's scrutiny
03.06.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
TRIAL, along with eight associations from Mexico and Central America, has submitted a report (available in Spanish too) to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances(CED).
It aims at reminding Mexico of its legal obligation under the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Even though the State is party to this treat...
TRIAL acts before the Committee on Enforced Disappearances
01.05.2014 - (Last modified: 20.09.2016)
In May 2014 TRIAL and 8 associations from Mexico and Central America submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED). It concerns the implementation by Mexico of its obligations under the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Mexico is a party to this treaty since 18 March 2008 and i...
Mexico must put an end to extrajudicial executions of migrants
11.02.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
TRIAL calls on Mexico to investigate the massacres of migrants and to guarantee access to justice for the relatives
According to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, 170 migrants have been killed in the country since 2005, including the massive murder of 72 migrants in August 2013 in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. There seems to be a link between the murder of mig...
Mexico must do more against enforced disappearances
27.11.2013 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
TRIAL and eight local Mexican human rights organizations are submitting a report to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) assessing the measures taken by Mexico to comply with its obligations under the International Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The "war on drugs" initiated by former Mexican presi...
TRIAL acts before the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions
01.11.2013 - (Last modified: 20.09.2016)
According to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, 170 migrants have been killed in the country since 2005, including the massive murder of 72 migrants in August 2013 in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. There seems to be a link between the murder of migrants, organized crime and the complicity of the police and other authorities.
Migrant shelters have been the object...
Mexico under examination by the U.N. Committee against Torture in Geneva
05.11.2012 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
On 31 October and 1 November 2012, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) examined and discussed the report submitted by Mexico with a delegation of the Mexican government. TRIAL participated in a private meeting with the CAT prior to its open session with the Mexican delegation in order to raise issues related to the violations by Mexico of its internatio...
TRIAL acts before the UN Committee against Torture
01.05.2012 - (Last modified: 20.09.2016)
In May 2012, TRIAL submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture.
The report highlights the existing obstacles in the implementation of the Convention against Torture by Mexico, providing numerous concrete examples as well as recommendations to improve the situation.
The report was submitted in partnership with seven Mexican and Central Ame...
Feminicide: TRIAL before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
15.05.2009 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
TRIAL and OMCT submit an amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights on the Right to Personal Integrity and the Right to Dignity
In April 2009 TRIAL - through it's Advocacy Center TRIAL (ACT) - and the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) submitted a joint amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case Campo Alg...