Mexico

Let’s turn back the clock. The year is 2006. The month is May. Mexico State Security Forces evict a group of flower sellers from a local market in Texcoco, Mexico, whom authorities claim set up stalls without permission outside of the market. This eviction produced an outpouring of community support for the vendors in Texcoco and in San Salvador Atenco. The protest, which lasted two days, resulted in arrests of more than 200 people, 47 of which were women. These women were forced to endure unimaginable forms of violence at the hands of the police. Thus far, state authorities have pursued criminal action in only two of the 11 cases, citing “abuse of authority or “lewd acts” and not, torture. 

The Latin America Working Group Education Fund, the Washington Office on Latin America and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights invite you to a discussion on 

Human Rights Challenges in Mexico
 
Featuring
 
Stephanie Brewer
Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh)
 
Cristina Hardaga Fernández
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, Guerrero

Daniel Joloy
Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH)

Ana Luna Serrano
Citizens in Support of Human Rights, Nuevo León
 
Other speakers to be confirmed.
 
Friday, March 15, 2013 
9:00 a.m.-10:30am
Washington Office on Latin America
1666 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 400

To read the MPJD's next steps, outlined at the press conference on Monday, January 28, 2013, click here. 
Para leer la declaracion del MPJD, haga clic aqui.

To read The Pain Caused by Guns Has No Borders, click here. (In Spanish and English)

To read the salute to the Congreso Nacional Indigena, click here. (In Spanish only)

 To read the Platform for Memory and Documentation, click here. (In Spanish only)

To read the Drug Regulation Platform, click here. (In Spanish only)

To read the Solidarity Statement by Asamblea Popular de Familias Migrantes, click here. (In Spanish only)

“We embrace the pain of the mothers and fathers in the United States who have lost children to gun violence, because my own son was disappeared in Michoacán with a firearm,” said Araceli Rodríguez, mother of Luis Ángel León Rodríguez in a statement from Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD).  Just like parents who lost children in the horrific Newtown shooting, victims across Mexico who have lost their sons and daughters to gun violence are calling for action to prevent future tragedies.

What can you do? Join us and call your members of Congress on Monday, February 4th!