PBI-Mexico at forum on ‘Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists’ in Sonora
Diario del Yaqui reports:
“The Forum ‘Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists’ seeks to socialize a law that protects them from threats, murders and forced disappearances of these actors in Sonora. This past Saturday [April 20], the event was held in Ciudad Obregon with members of the guilds at the facilities of the Itson campus Centro.
Sibely Cañedo Cazares, coordinator of the Sinaloa Initiative, explained that in response to the death of a journalist in her state, a law for his safety was approved, so through this workshop they want to generate proposals aimed at the creation of an initiative in this regard but in the state of Sonora.
It should be noted that members of the national journalists’ organization Article 19, Peace Brigades International, were also present at the event.”
The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has recorded 88 killings of journalists and media workers in Mexico between 2012 and March 2024. It has verified that 37 of them were murdered in relation to their work. The most dangerous states in that period have been Veracruz (21 killings), Guerrero (10), Oaxaca (9), and Sonora (7).
This week, Mexico News Daily reported: “A report released this week by the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) … found 20 lethal attacks against environmental activists in 2023, which represents the fifth-highest number documented by CEMDA in the past decade. In 2022, the figure was 24. [The state of] Michoacán topped the list with seven victims … Guerrero was second on the list with six murders, followed by México state and Oaxaca with two each. Hidalgo, Sonora and Jalisco each had one.”
The full Diario del Yaqui article can be read at Iniciativa Sinaloa brinda respaldo legal a periodistas de Sonora en elaboración de ley (April 21).
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