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Three Amigos Summit: Human rights must be at the core of the North American agenda
Human rights must be a top priority during the North American Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa, said Amnesty International in an open letter to United States President Barack Obama, Mexican President…
Press Release
Mexico: Sexual violence routinely used as torture to secure confessions from women
An unprecedented Amnesty International investigation of 100 women arrested in Mexico reveals that they are routinely sexually abused by the security forces who want to secure confessions and boost figures…
Report
Surviving Death: Police and Military Torture of Women in Mexico
An unprecedented Amnesty International investigation of 100 women arrested in Mexico reveals that they are routinely sexually abused by the security forces who want to secure confessions and boost figures…
Update
Orgullo: Mexico City Pride
[caption id="attachment_72676" align="alignleft" width="2048"] Pride march, June 2001, Mexico City. JORGE UZON/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] By Jesús Canchola Sánchez June 25 marks the 38th Pride march in Mexico City. “It is the…
Update
Journalism Is Not a Crime
Journalism is not a crime, yet the principles of free speech and a free press are threatened right across the world. To mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May,…
Urgent Action
Mexico: Investigate Cases of Enforced Disappearances (UA 83/16)
Public officials in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua have intimidated relatives of disappeared people and are pressuring them to allow government-chosen forensic experts to examine human remains found in…
Victory
Good News! – Honduras: Gustavo Castro Soto Has Returned to Mexico (UA 50/16)
Mexican human rights defender Gustavo Castro Soto, sole witness to the murder of Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, has returned to Mexico. Honduran authorities had previously ordered him to remain in…
Urgent Action
Good News! – Honduras: Gustavo Castro Soto Has Returned to Mexico (UA 50/16)
Mexican human rights defender Gustavo Castro Soto, sole witness to the murder of Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, has returned to Mexico. Honduran authorities had previously ordered him to remain…
Update
What It Takes to Defend Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights – New Report Released on SRR Defenders in the Americas
Amnesty’s new report focuses on the situation of SRR defenders in the Americas and the patterns of intimidation, violence and stigmatization they face every day.
Press Release
Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International
International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led to a wholesale assault on basic freedoms and rights, warned…
Report
Amnesty International State of the World 2015-2016
International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led to a wholesale assault on basic freedoms and rights, warned…
Report
“Treated with Indolence:” The State’s Response to Disappearances in Mexico
Systemic incompetence and a complete lack of will by state and federal authorities in Mexico to properly search for and investigate the disappearance of thousands of people is fuelling a…
