Press releases from Mexico

In 2022, we registered 768 attacks against women defenders and organizations that defend the right to a life free from violence in Mesoamerica

To mark November 25, we offer information regarding the violence faced by women who defend women’s right to a life free from violence.
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Mesoamerican Registry of Attacks against Women Defenders: 2022 — Preliminary data

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[Urgent Alert] MEXICO / The life and integrity of Amuzga defender Kenia Hernández is at risk; calls for her transfer to another prison and prompt release are urgent.

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Unraveling the crisis - weaving futures

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[PRESS RELEASE] There is no gender equality without protection for women defenders.

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[Urgent Alert] MESOAMERICA / Stop the violence and hate speech against migrants! Regional governments must guarantee safe, humanitarian passage to the Migrant Caravan.

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[STATEMENT] National, regional, and international human rights and feminist organizations call for solidarity with our allies from the Uganda Women's Network, "UWONET," and the Uganda National NGO Forum makes an urgent call to stop criminalizing and stigmatizing their work.

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Letter from mesoamerican women defenders to Marisela Escobedo

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[Urgent Alert] MESOAMERICA / Regional governments send military troops and special forces to head off and disband the migrant caravan that left Honduras on September 30.

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[Urgent Alert] MEXICO / Statements by the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stigmatize and put human rights defenders and organizations at risk.

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[CAMPAIGN] “Their Lives are Our Lives”

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[Urgent Alert] MEXICO / Explicit death threat left at door of Consorcio Oaxaca office

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The crisis was already here: Mesoamerican WHRDs and COVID-19

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[Urgent Alert] MEXICO / Violent attack against Ikoots People in San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca

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UGANDA / Brutal attack against Mollie Siperia, student leader at Makerere University

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Concerns raised over Esraa Abdel Fattah’s state of health during prison hunger strike

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Stop the extermination of WHRDs and leaders in Colombia!

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Stop militarization and the repression of social protests in Chile!

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We congratulate mexican journalist Marcela Turati, 2019 Moors Cabot Prize

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Stop the abduction and human right violations of Women Defenders in Egypt

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[STATEMENT] ¡Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders say NO to the attack against the Kurdish community!

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PARAGUAY / ANTI-RIGHTS GROUPS ATTACK MARCH HELD BY #LGBTI COLLECTIVES

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SOLIDARITY WITH FEMINISTS CRIMINALIZED for Anarchist Sisterhood’s Sacred Defiant Cunt and Burial of Socio-Labour Rights Procession in Spanish State

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We congratulate the Oaxacan feminist movement for its historic achievement of the decriminalization of abortion in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Recognition of the Solecito Collective

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#UrgentAlert MEXICO / Smear and criminalization campaign against feminist defenders

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[STATEMENT] Disturbing risk situation of women human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico

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We congratulate the FAU on its tenth anniversary

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[MEXICO] WHRDs from 12 states meet to strengthen daily activities of Network of Women Defenders in Mexico

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#WHRDAlert COLOMBIA / Assailants kill María del Pilar Hurtado, defender of the right to decent housing

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Stop the criminalization of WHRDs working with migrant people!

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ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF COLOMBIAN DEFENDER FRANCIA MÁRQUEZ, GOLDMAN PRIZE WINNER 2018

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Stand in solidaity with Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa, Ugandan #WHRD

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NASRIN SOTOUDEH: We demand her release!

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We congratulate the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico, winner of Faces for Equality Award

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SORORITY / MEXICO: Dominga is free!

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We lament the death of WHRD Caroline Mwatha in Kenya, caused by structural violence against women

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Women defenders in Guerrero join forces to combat attacks

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Women defenders in Michoacán construct security protocols with feminist focus

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In Monterrey meeting women defenders construct security protocols that reinforce their struggles

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IM-Defensoras participates in high-level events in New York on 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

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Veracruz Front for Life and Women’s Rights: Sentinel for the rights of women

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International Feminist Solidarity Day with Nicaragua

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Women Human Rights Defenders from 15 organizations meet on Yucatan Peninsula to map out security and self-care routes

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FREE THE DEFENDERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO DRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA!

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IM-DEFENSORAS PRESENTS IN EUROPE REPORT ON ATTACKS AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA

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VIDEO / IM-DEFENSORAS CONDEMNS EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION OF MARIELLE FRANCO IN BRASIL

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Philippines government criminalizes UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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#WHRDAlert BRAZIL / Assailants kill Marielle Franco, feminist and defender of the rights of Afrodescendant peoples

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Cristina Auerbach and the Pasta de Conchos Family Organization: 12 years of a commitment to human rights in mining town in Coahuila, México

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RNDDHM members meet with UN Rapporteur

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16 Days Campaign 2017 / IM-Defensoras calls for holistic feminist protection as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign

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#WHRDAlert CATALONIA / Repression of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people

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Congratulations to Luchadoras TV on 5 years of building the transforming power of women’s voices

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We thank organizations that made possible "Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land..."

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MEXICO / OSC asks International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity in Coahuila, Mexico

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Fourth State Meeting of Women Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Oaxaca

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Ambasadors’ Mission and UN Women visit La Serena House in Mexico and recognize work of women human rights defenders

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Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land, Territory and Environment

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Declaration of organizations participating in the Latin American Gathering of Defenders and Authorities of the Original Peoples and Territories of Latin America

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6 HUNGER-STRIKING NURSES IN CHIAPAS FACE HEALTH RISK –– RNDDHM URGES SPEEDY SOLUTION TO DEMANDS

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Women defender networks meet at UN for first time to denounce violence and discrimination against women activists throughout the world

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NEWS / NETWORKS OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE PLANET GO TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCES ABOUT PROTECTION WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

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SISTERHOOD / #WHRDAlert COLOMBIA: At least six women defenders have been killed in the last four months

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Berta didn’t die, she multiplied...

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NEWS / Meeting of IM-Defensoras Driving Group

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PRESS STATEMENT RNDDHHM / "WHRD's networks are a key factor for protection": Michel Forst

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NEWS / Rapporteur Michel Forst issues alert on specific violence faced by women human rights defenders

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NEWS / Mexican WHRDs meet with the Rapporteur Mr. Michel Forst

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URGENT ACTION: We denounce death threats against human rights defender Eva Lucero Rivero Ortiz

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NEWS / First oficial visit of Rapporteur Michel Forst to Mexico

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#WHRDAlert ECUADOR / Stop the repression against territorial defenders in Ecuador – Solidarity with Ecological Action

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The National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico presents the campaign: "We Women Defenders Believe and Create"

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Invitation to virtual dialogue “Self-Care, a Political Strategy in Defense of Human Rights”

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IM-Defensoras In the Campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women 2016

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International seminar held in Spanish State: Weaving Webs for the Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders

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SEPTEMBER 28th– INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION

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NEWS / IM-Defensoras at AWID FORUM 2016, Brasil

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OPEN LETTER / JUSTICE, a demand still alive six months after Berta Cáceres’ murder

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NEWS / IM-DEFENSORAS and national groups tell UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders about attacks and impunity faced by women defenders in Mesoamerica

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OPEN LETTER / Mr. Michel Forst - Alarming context of impunity and attacks against women human rights defenders in Mexico and Central America

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IM-Defensoras at Regional Dialogue‬ on "An Interchange of Good Practices: New challenges for the erradication of violence agaist women”

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UN Women and IM-Defensoras publish Spanish language edition of UN General Assembly Resolution on Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders and Individual Women’s Rights Defenders

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OAXACA / URGENT ACTION Oaxaca Network of Women Activists and Human Rights Defenders : We denounce the harassment of defenders Adriana Marcelina Linares Arroyo and Rubí Jazmín Cortés Salazar

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UN Rapporteur receives information on situation of women human rights defenders in Mexico

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México D.F., 10 de mayo de 2016 - Compañeras, reciban la solidaridad y cariño de quienes integramos la Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM-Defensoras), integrada por más de 750 mujeres defensoras de Honduras, México, Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Estamos hoy con ustedes, acompañando sus incansables pasos en busca de verdad y justicia por la desaparición de sus hijos e hijas y respaldando su exigencia de búsqueda inmediata de quienes les faltan infinitamente.  Estamos aquí, para decirles que son defensoras de derechos humanos y que su trabajo es fundamental para terminar con la impunidad y la crisis de violaciones a derechos humanos que enfrenta México. Sabemos que enfrentan la dolorosa y atroz omisión y negligencia de las autoridades en un estado impune y corrupto, y que hay un margen muy pequeño para esperar la respuesta diligente, humana y responsable de las autoridades que merecen.  Pero en ese pequeño margen nos unimos con ustedes, a todas sus demandas, a su dolor, pues, como millones de personas haciendo eco de la necesidad de abatir la impunidad y la indolencia que sigue generando que vivamos en un país en donde se nos separe de nuestros hijos e hijas sin respuesta alguna. De igual forma, exigimos que en esta fundamental labor de defensa de los derechos humanos que realizan se garantice su seguridad. Las acompañamos hoy, desde diversos puntos de Mesoamérica con la demanda viva, en nuestra acción política y en nuestro corazón, de que queremos a todas nuestras hijas e hijos de regreso a casa.
México D.F., 10 de mayo de 2016 - Compañeras, reciban la solidaridad y cariño de quienes integramos la Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM-Defensoras), integrada por más de 750 mujeres defensoras de Honduras, México, Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Estamos hoy con ustedes, acompañando sus incansables pasos en busca de verdad y justicia por la desaparición de sus hijos e hijas y respaldando su exigencia de búsqueda inmediata de quienes les faltan infinitamente.  Estamos aquí, para decirles que son defensoras de derechos humanos y que su trabajo es fundamental para terminar con la impunidad y la crisis de violaciones a derechos humanos que enfrenta México. Sabemos que enfrentan la dolorosa y atroz omisión y negligencia de las autoridades en un estado impune y corrupto, y que hay un margen muy pequeño para esperar la respuesta diligente, humana y responsable de las autoridades que merecen.  Pero en ese pequeño margen nos unimos con ustedes, a todas sus demandas, a su dolor, pues, como millones de personas haciendo eco de la necesidad de abatir la impunidad y la indolencia que sigue generando que vivamos en un país en donde se nos separe de nuestros hijos e hijas sin respuesta alguna. De igual forma, exigimos que en esta fundamental labor de defensa de los derechos humanos que realizan se garantice su seguridad. Las acompañamos hoy, desde diversos puntos de Mesoamérica con la demanda viva, en nuestra acción política y en nuestro corazón, de que queremos a todas nuestras hijas e hijos de regreso a casa.

MEXICO / IM-Defensoras message in solidarity with the "5th March for National Dignity: Mothers of missing children seek truth and justice"

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012-2014 REPORT

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PAVING THE ROAD FOR FREEDOM & EQUALITY

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012 ASSESSMENT REPORT - SUMMARY FINDINGS

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