by Brian Erickson & Jennifer Johnson
on May 05, 2010
The early months of 2010 have been a roller-coaster of anticipation and
tension within the immigration debate. Expectations were running high in
March when a Senators Schumer and Graham released
a framework for reform days before crowds of over
200,000–unified in their chants of “immigration reform now” – gathered
blocks from the capitol.
Weeks later, a heat wave of anger erupted when Arizona Governor
Jan Brewer signed SB1070, a draconian and dangerous legislation
that has sparked both swift and widespread responses.
by Jennifer Johnson and Vanessa Kritzer
on April 01, 2010
Working to protect human rights in the heavily militarized mountain region of Guerrero, Mexico is never easy; and threats and harassment are not new for the Mexican human rights defenders who work for the Organization of the Me’phaa Indigenous People (OPIM) and the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights. But we have been alarmed to see a rise in threats against them because of their outspoken advocacy, including their accompaniment of two indigenous women, Inés Fernández Ortega y Valentina Rosendo Cantú, who were raped and tortured by soldiers in 2002.
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by Jennifer Johnson
on April 30, 2010
Human rights organizations are joining together to condemn
and call for urgent
action following the horrific attacks against an international
human rights caravan in Oaxaca earlier this week.
On Tuesday, April 27th a caravan of 25 human rights observers, reporters
and teachers was ambushed
by an armed group of paramilitaries in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two members of the delegation were killed in this attack, Betty Alberta
Cariño, the director of Center for Community Support Working Together
(CACTUS) along with Tyri Antero Jaakkola, a human rights observer from
Finland, with 15 more reported
injured.
by Jennifer Johnson and Brian Erickson
on March 08, 2010
As we mark International Women’s Day, we remember Esther Chávez Cano, a powerful champion for women’s rights who struggled to eradicate gender-based violence and whose efforts raised worldwide attention to the ever-growing toll of unresolved murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez.
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by Brian Erickson & Jennifer Johnson
on April 15, 2010
Earlier this week, Arizona state legislators voted in favor of legislation that – if signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer - would institutionalize discriminatory and dangerous policies by effectively pressuring police to engage in racial profiling, criminalize unauthorized migrants for 'trespassing' into Arizona, and permit anyone to sue local agencies if they believe that the law isn't being adequately enforced. Such policies are as sweeping as they are dangerous.
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by Vanessa Kritzer and Jennifer Johnson
on August 26, 2009
We were disappointed and troubled to learn last week that the U.S. government had released the chunk of Merida Initiative funds that were supposed to have been withheld until the State Department reported that Mexico had demonstrated progress in key areas of human rights.
Soon after the news of the release was confirmed, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, and the Fundar Center for Analysis and Investigation, three prominent Mexican human rights NGOs, released a public statement condemning the U.S. government’s action, as the “human rights obligations remain unfulfilled as Mexican security forces commit widespread, unpunished violations against the civilian population.”
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