Human rights in Mexico

Human rights in Mexico

Human Rights in Mexico have been an issue for years. The problems include torture, police repression [ [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/10/28/index.php?section=politica&article=003n1pol Represión policial y paramilitar en Oaxaca; tres muertos y 23 heridos] ] , sexual murder [ [http://www.stephenrush.com/CivilRights.html Stephen L. Rush: Advocacy & Civil Rights] ] , and, more recently, news reporter assassinations. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301774.html Americans Covering Mexico Drug Trade Face Assassination Threat] ]

Sexual murder in Ciudad Juárez

Since 1992, hundres of women of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, have been sexually murdered. The death toll of serially related murders in Juárez is climbing past 400, and many women are simply missing according to local news articles ["Alza la voz por crimenes en Juárez", El Diario, July 20, 2000] . The city of Juarez homicide-disappearance rate for women is 38 times higher than all of the homicides in common North American statistics ["Homicides of Women: Periodical Audit", Chihuahua Institute of the Woman] .

Women and young girls from every occupation and age, especially girls on their way to school waiting for their bus in the morning and women working the second shift walking home before dawn from their factories' bus stops are quite vulnerable [Vicky Caraveo, Director, Chihuahua Institute of the Woman] . The most seriously threatened group is primarily 12 to 21 years of age due to a breakdown of the family according to Chihuahua Institute of the Woman [Chihuahuanese Instituto de la Mujer] . Save Juarez Project Director, Stephen L. Rush, suspected the drug lords are running a prostitution ring and paying the police to dump the bodies [ [http://www.SaveJuarez.org] ] . Save Juarez closed operations in November of 2005 after several unsuccessful attempts at safehouses and self-defense training ["Final Address", Stephen L. Rush] .

See also

*National Human Rights Commission (Mexico)
*Tlatelolco Massacre
*Aguas Blancas massacre
*Digna Ochoa
*Lydia Cacho

External links

* [http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/mexico/index.do Human Rights - Mexico - Amnesty International - Mexico Concerns]
* [http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/97/ Freedom of expression in Mexico - IFEX]
* [http://www.cndh.org.mx/ CNDH] - National Human Rights Commission (Mexico)

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