(Left to right): Elizabeth Guadalupe Mosqueda Rivera, Héctor Hugo Arreola Galván, Mario Hurtado Cardozo, Aledia Quintana Ordaz.
On Thursday February 12 at 3 pm ET (2 pm in Mexico City), PBI-Mexico, Espacio OSC and PBI-Canada are jointly holding a webinar on strengthening the Protection Mechanism.
The speakers include Elizabeth Guadalupe Mosqueda Rivera (with the Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity Oaxaca), Héctor Hugo Arreola Galván (with the Zeferino Ladrillero Human Rights Center), Mario Hurtado Cardozo (Espacio OSC) and Aledia Quintana Ordaz (from the National Network of Human Rights Defenders).
To register for this webinar, click here.
This webinar follows the advocacy visit by Elizabeth and Hugo in September 2025 to Ottawa where they met with Members of Parliament, Global Affairs Canada officials, and civil society allies to amplify the call to strengthen the Protection Mechanism.
And it precedes the Team Canada Trade Mission (TCTM) to Mexico from February 15 to 20 that will be led by Dominic LeBlanc, the Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy.
At the United Nations Universal Periodic Review session held on January 24, 2024, Canada recommended that Mexico: “Strengthen, from an intersectional and gender perspective, the federal Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, specifically in the areas of prevention, protection, investigation, and reparation.”
Stay tuned for updates on this.
