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The National Human Rights Commission ( Spanish: Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos; CNDH) is the national human rights institution (NHRI) accredited at the United Nations with "A" status by the International Co-ordinating Committee of NHRIs (the ICC). It is also a voting member of the International Ombudsman Institute (the IOI), and its ...
Human rights in Mexico. 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 ...
Ciudadanos en Apoyo a los Derechos Humanos, A.C. (CADHAC), also known in English as Citizens in Support of Human Rights, is a Mexican non-governmental organization founded in 1993 based in Monterrey, Nuevo León by Consuelo Morales Elizondo. Its main objective is the promotion and defense of human rights in the state of Nuevo León and northern ...
Mexico’s largest cartels have opened up new violent fronts in far-flung corners like the jungle-clad stretches of the Mexico-Guatemala border. Mexicans choose between continuity and change in ...
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Next to him, at the altar of his church in northern Mexico, Jesuit priests Javier Campos, 79, and Joaquín Mora, 80, lay in a pool of blood. Still hurting from violence, Mexican priests and ...
In 2009, Mexico's national abortion rate was at about 38 abortions per 1,000 for women between the ages of 15 and 44, at 3.8%. The rates are important to consider because of Mexico's stringent anti-abortion laws, and, so, might not be the most accurate representation of the actual data. [20] [25]
The European Convention on Human Rights ( ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, [1] the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953.