Mexico is also one of the most dangerous countries in the world for human rights defenders. Twenty-two human rights defenders were killed in 2022, according to the human rights group Comité Cerezo.

Mexico 2023 Human Rights Report . Executive Summary . There were no significant changes in the human rights situation in Mexico during the year. Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings ; …

Human rights in Mexico refers to moral principles or norms [1] that describe certain standards of human behaviour in Mexico, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law.The problems include torture, extrajudicial killings and summary executions, [2] police repression, [3] sexual murder, and, more recently, news reporter assassinations.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Mexico must eliminate the concept of arraigo detention (precautionary detention without charge) and modify the pretrial detention system. The independence of the judiciary remained under threat, including through the arbitrary detention of judges. The construction of the “Mayan Train ...

Jan 20, 2025 · EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. There were no significant changes in the human rights situation in Mexico during the year. Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by security forces; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions ...

Nov 8, 2024 · The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights ...

Mexico is committed to the protection of human rights, through a strong national system and specialized institutions at the national and state level, and even at the local level in some districts. The 2011 Constitutional Reform increased HR protections, warranting the highest level of protection , by applying national laws or the international ...

In 2019 a Mexico City court ordered academic Sergio Aguayo, a columnist of the daily newspaper Reforma and human rights defender under the NPM, to pay a fine of 10 million pesos ($500,000) in moral damages to former Coahuila Governor Humberto Moreira. On February 17, Moreira sued Aguayo again for defamation.

Feb 20, 2025 · The National Human Rights Commission received 476 complaints against the National Guard and 404 against SEDENA regarding multiple crimes under international law and human rights violations, including torture, killings, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions. In September, Congress approved the National Guard’s incorporation into SEDENA.

From December 1, 2018, to March 31, 2024, the Mexico office of the British human rights group Article 19 registered 3,408 attacks or threats against journalists, 46 journalists killed, and four ...