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Mexico: News & Updates
Mexico shares a 2,000-mile border with its neighbor to the north. The US has played a significant role in militarizing the nation in misguided and ineffective policies to stop the flow of drugs and immigrants. Human rights abuses are prevalent throughout Mexico but especially in the southern, mostly indigenous states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas. Human rights defenders and indigenous community leaders—working to protect their ancestral lands and heritage—are targeted with threats, assaults, abductions and assassinations. Their struggles for peace and liberation are linked with those of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples throughout the hemisphere.
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RRN Letter
July 4, 2009
RRN Letter
June 2, 2009
RRN Letter
June 1, 2009
RRN Letter
May 13, 2009
RRN Letter
May 11, 2009
RRN Letter
April 26, 2009
RRN Letter
April 3, 2009
RRN Letter
April 1, 2009
RRN Case Update
April 1, 2009
OPIM: protective measures for indigenous leader