Mexico
Tuesday 10.5.2022 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Mexico: vicious attacks against women, journalists and HRDs continue
At the end of April 2022, thousands of people protested in multiple cities to demand justice for the murder of 18-year-old student Debanhi Escobar in Nuevo León, and for the killings and disappearances of other women and girls across the country. Read more | Read in Spanish
Friday 1.4.2022 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Mexico: governing party introduces bill restricting civil society work
A bill being considered in the Chamber of Deputies would restrict the work of civil society groups by prohibiting organisations from trying to influence or change laws through lobbying or strategic litigation if they receive funding from foreign sources. Read more | Read in Spanish
Tuesday 22.2.2022 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Outrage as five journalists killed in Mexico in early 2022
Five journalists were murdered in Mexico in the first two months of 2022, leading to protests for justice and calls for more government action to stop the violence against the press. Read more | Read in Spanish
Wednesday 22.12.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Mexican government investigated and monitored journalist and human rights defenders
In November 2021, new court documents revealed that human rights defenders and a journalist who had prominent roles investigating a massacre in Mexico were criminally investigated by government authorities under a special organised crime statute. Read more
Monday 22.11.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
New tax rules impact civil society in Mexico
On 27th October 2021, Indigenous forest defender Irma Galindo Barrios went missing, reportedly after attending a protest in Mexico City. According to IM-Defensoras, she was meant to attend a conference of the Mechanism to Protect Human Rights Defenders and Journalists in the capital, but never arrived. Read more
Thursday 7.10.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Mexico: Frustration with government takes people to the streets
On 29th August 2021 in Chiapas, members of a teachers’ union blocked President López Obrador’s vehicle on his way to deliver his daily televised news conference. Members of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (National Coordinator of Education Workers - CNTE) wanted to speak directly to the president about employment issues including remuneration, working conditions and recruitment. Read more
Monday 23.8.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Mexico: wave of killings of journalists, environmental and Indigenous rights defenders
On 12th June 2021, Yaqui Indigenous leader and environmental defender Luis Urbano Domínguez was shot and killed as he exited a bank in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Read more | Read in Spanish
Tuesday 13.7.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Conviction of perpetrators in the killings of journalists Miroslava Breach and Javier Valdez
On 8th June 2021, a federal judge in Culiacán, Sinaloa, convicted Juan Francisco Picos Barrueta, known as “El Quillo,” for his role in the murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas in 2017. Read more
Thursday 20.5.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
World Press Freedom Day in Mexico marked by killing of journalist
On World Press Freedom Day, 3rd May 2021, independent reporter Benjamín Morales was found dead with gunshot wounds in Sonoyta, Sonora state. Local outlets reported that police said “a message” had been left with the journalist’s body, but its contents were not disclosed. Read more
Friday 26.3.2021 Mexico - Latest Developments -
Bill to regulate social media threatens freedom of expression in Mexico
At the beginning of February 2021, Mexico’s Senate majority leader presented a bill to regulate social media platforms, which could constrain freedom of expression in the country. Read more | Read in Spanish
