Human rights in Mexico

The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work has jumped twice in 2020. Criminal and combat gangs target journalists working in both democratic and violence-ridden countries, shows a report by the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (JPC).

The official data on femicides should be updated regularly in order to help prevent women from being murdered, say activists with an organization that keeps a tally of femicides across the country.

The president of Cyprus fired the country's police chief on Friday over what he described as a failure to promptly investigate the disappearances of women and girls, after a suspected serial killer's murders were discovered by accident.
Four women have been found murdered in the past three weeks, their bodies dumped in three locations west of the capital Nicosia.

The remains of a second of 43 missing Mexican students have possibly been identified, authorities said on Sept.16, almost a year after a crime that rocked President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.

Mexico's official account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sept.6, citing deep flaws in the government's investigation and dismissing its claims that the victims were incinerated in a garbage dump.

The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico's attorney general's office says.
     

Nestle, one of the world's top food companies, apologized on Monday for an offensive tweet about 43 missing trainee teachers apparently massacred in southwest Mexico, saying it was "unauthorized".
   

The hunt for a fugitive ex-mayor and his wife accused of running their Mexican town as a narco-fiefdom and ordering an attack that killed six people and left 43 college students missing ended Nov. 4 in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Mexico City where they were hiding.