May 18, 2012

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PBI volunteers with Tita Radilla from the Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared, and Victims of Human Rights Abuses in Mexico (AFADEM)

A PBI vounteer meets with Rogelio Téliz, lawyer from the 'Tlachinollan' Human Rights Centre

PBI frequently accompanies organisations in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero

PBI has accompanied members of the Organization of the Indigenous Me'phaa People (OPIM) since 2005

PBI accompanying Roberto Santiago Cortés and María de la Luz Martínez García of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Advice for Indigenous Peoples (Cedhapi), Oaxaca

PBI organises foreign tours so that its support network might understand better the situation of risk which affects human rights defenders. Here Alba Cruz, lawyer from the 25th of November Liberation Committee, visits the United Kingdom.

Annual Report 2011

In 2011, PBI Mexico has maintained international accompaniment in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca and in Mexico City. The Project has made visible the risks and initiatives of people defending human rights at both national and international level. In particular, PBI has highlighted the development of a Protection Mechanism and the consequences of promoting and defending community and environmental rights.

Read the report here.

BULLETINS

<media 8255>Undermining the Land</media> the defence of community rights and the environment in Mexico

INTERVIEWS

Cerezo Committe: "Violation that is not documented, violation that does not exist"

SPECIAL REPORTS

Dignas - Voices of women human rights defenders in Mexico

JASS / CONSORCIO / RED MESA DE MUJERES

WHRDs in Mexico: 2010-2011 Assessment of conditions and risk faced in their work (in Spanish)

January 2012

Other Publications and Reports about Mexico

Mocipol: Report (in Spanish) Desde la mirada ciudadana: Monitor Civil de la Policía y de las Fuerzas de Seguridad of La Montaña de Guerrero, December 2011

FIDH/OMCT: Human Rights Defenders more than ever at risk Annual Report 2011

HRW: Neither Rights Nor Security Killings, Torture, and Disappearances in Mexico’s “War on Drugs”, November 9, 2011

Red TdT: Mexico, two years after the Universal Periodic Review, June 2011

BHRC: Recalling the Rule of Law Report of the lawyers' delegation to Mexico, 2010

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Protection Mechanism

PBI supports the proposal for Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists in Mexico.

See the Cencos microsite about this project (Spanish)

¡Video about PBI!

Bearing Witness from PBI UK on Vimeo.

This five minute film produced by Alan Ereira for PBI UK is an excellent short introduction to the work of PBI and how acompaniment protects human rights defenders who are threatened with violence.

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Peace Brigades International - Mexico Project Office
Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT, U.K.
Tel: +44 20 7065 0775
Email: pbimexico(at)remove-this.pbi-mexico.org

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