US EditionUN Experts Demand Truth 3 Years After Disappearance of Human Rights Defenders Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio in Mexico
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UN experts demand truth 3 years after disappearance of human rights defenders Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio in Mexico
On 15 January 2026 – the third anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz – UN experts demanded immediate answers about the fate and whereabouts of the two Mexican human rights defenders. “Mexican authorities must comply with the State’s international obligations, including by investigating the enforced disappearance, proactively searching for them, determining their fate and whereabouts, and holding perpetrato…
Three years ago, Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, a human rights lawyer, and Antonio Díaz Valencia, a nahua indigenous leader, were kidnapped in Aquila, Mexico. Both men defended the environmental and territorial rights of the local community in the face of the harmful mining activities of Ternium Mexico, a subsidiary of the Luxembourg multinational Ternium. [...]
Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz were last seen on January 15, 2023, after attending a meeting where collective actions against the mining company Ternium were discussed.
GENEVA – United Nations human rights experts demanded immediate responses to Mexico this Thursday on the fate and whereabouts of human rights defenders Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz, after three years of their enforced disappearance in the western state of Colima. “Mexican authorities must comply [...]
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Global Diaspora NewsSeveral independent UN rapporteurs and experts recall that the authorities “must comply with their international obligations.” They also observed that enforced disappearances have a chilling effect on those who defend human rights (...) and serve to silence critical voices. A group of United Nations experts today demanded immediate answers from the Mexican state about the fate and whereabouts of human rights defenders Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio…
Geneva, Switzerland. A group of UN experts demanded from the Mexican government the truth and justice surrounding the whereabouts of human rights defenders Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz, whose disappearance marks three years this Thursday. Context and chronology of the disappearance The Special Rapporteurs pointed out that, so far, neither the authorities have given "an effective response" nor the company allegedly involved has fully collabor…
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