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Weekly Report - 20 August 2015 (WR-15-33)
MEXICO: Stung into action by human rights criticism
A letter from the PEN Club International, the world’s largest association of writers, which criticises the lack of protection offered to journalists and human rights activists in Mexico, this week drew an immediate response from the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto. In an official statement, Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, sought to counter this criticism as well as the latest concerns regarding the defence of human rights in Mexico voiced by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Meanwhile a federal court has issued a landmark ruling in a human rights case.
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