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Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER)

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Mexico

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Corporate Accountability

Monitoring

OP-ICESCR

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA)

Country:

Mexico

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Corporate Accountability

Strategic Litigation

Monitoring

OP-ICESCR

Otros Mundos AC Chiapas

Country:

Mexico

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Corporate Accountability

Economic Policy

OP-ICESCR

Mexico: Ensure Protection and Justice for Omar Esparza, Widower of Bety Cariño

The widower of a human rights defender killed in 2010 has received information concerning plans to take his life. The threats follow a series of intimidating acts directed at him and others that are calling for the investigation of the murder.

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Corporate Capture Project sets action plan for 2015-16

The Project Advisory Group of the Corporate Capture Project met in Mexico City

Government documents reveal Canadian Embassy backed mining abuses in Mexico

Report from MiningWatch Canada and the United Steelworkers concludes that Canadian diplomats in Mexico were complicit in Toronto-based Excellon Resources Inc.’s efforts to avoid redressing a violated land use contract

Mexican members strategize on Treaty process to regulate corporate abuses

The ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group organized a meeting to develop strategies for the new UN process to establish a treaty to regulate corporate violations of human rights

Ejido La Sierrita obtains favorable ruling in trial against Canadian mining company

ProDESC is pleased to announce that communal landowners of La Sierrita are exempt from rent payment

New Report of the meeting of the Latin American members of the Women and ESCR WG

As reported earlier, from 11-13 November 2014, 25 women, activists and leaders in human rights across Latin America, gathered in Mexico City to participate in the workshop ‘Exchanging experiences and strategies in...

Case “Special Care Unit 13” (Pabellón 13) regarding patients with HIV-AIDS brought against the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) and other authorities (AR 378/2014)

On December 20, 2012, three patients of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases “Ismael Cosío Villegas” (INER) brought the indirect amparo action 1669/2012 against various authorities held responsible, including the National Commission of Social Protection in Health, the Technical Committee of the Trust for the System of Social Protection in Health and the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases “Ismael Cosío Villegas” (INER), for the failure of said authorities to take all necessary measures to guarantee and implement the patients’ right to the enjoyment of the highest attainabl