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Weekly Report - 12 February 2015 (WR-15-06)
MEXICO: Awaiting outcome of critical UN hearings
Last week a Mexican government delegation concluded a two-day presentation before the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) on the efforts that the country has made to combat enforced disappearance in general and to address the current case of the mass abduction of 43 trainee teachers from the town of Iguala in Guerrero state in particular. The government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto will be hoping that it has managed to convince the CED panel convened to scrutinise its efforts that it is doing enough to address these issues and so avoid the UN’s potential condemnation.
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