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Weekly Report - 19 February 2015 (WR-15-07)
MEXICO: Enforced disappearances come under international scrutiny
For the second time in a month, Mexico’s response to last September’s mass abduction and alleged massacre of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero, is coming up for international scrutiny. The first occasion was the early February hearings by the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), the second is the impending arrival of a group of international experts set up by agreement between the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto and the relatives of the missing students.
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