US EditionMexico Rejects UN Findings that Country’s Enforced Disappearances Are Crimes Against Humanity
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Mexico rejects UN findings that country’s enforced disappearances are crimes against humanity
Mexico is pushing back against a U.N. report that asks the General Assembly to examine the situation of forced disappearances in the country, concluding that crimes against humanity have been and continue to be committed here. The U.N. Committee against Enforced Disappearances said it has “well-founded indications that … multiple widespread or systematic attacks against the civilian population have taken place at different moments and in differe…
Activists accused the Mexican state of maintaining a "systematic impunity" and lack of political will to address the problem of disappearances in Mexico. This after the Mexican government rejected the report of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, accusing it of being outdated, referring to cases that occurred in the governments of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, and lacks legal rigour. Collectives integrated into the National Ca…
The government of Mexico rejected the report of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CDF), calling it “tentious and lacking in legal rigour.”
La Tercera
diarioestrategia.clOn Thursday, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) asked the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to refer to the General Assembly the case of disappearances in Mexico, in order to find measures aimed at supporting his government in the prevention, investigation, punishment and eradication of this crime, which, he warned, could amount to “crimes against humanity.”
Mexico City, 2 Apr (EFE).- Amnesty International (AI) this Thursday asked the Mexican State to accept international technical cooperation to address the disappearance crisis in the country, after expressing its concern about the disqualification of the Government of Mexico from what it called a “historic decision” of the United Nations General Assembly (UN). The organization welcomed in a public position the decision of the UN Committee on Enfor…
Reforma
eldiariodechihuahua.mxOrganizations accused the government of evading responsibility for crises of enforced disappearance, and asked to accept help from the UN.
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