The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has posted on social media:
“At the start of High Commissioner @volker_turk’s visit to Mexico, @PBI_Mexico accompanied the meeting he held with representatives of civil society organizations, where the importance of strengthening dialogue and coordination between the government and civil society organizations was expressed.
From @EspacioOsc [the Civil Society Space of Organizations], the Working Group established between 2022 and 2024 to implement the recommendations of @OACNUDH [Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights] was highlighted as a best practice, with the aim of strengthening the Protection Mechanism, and a call was made to resume it.”
The link in that social media post links to a letter that says in part:
“Despite the sustained efforts of civil society to promote a proactive, structured and results-oriented dialogue that contributes to the strengthening of public policy for protection – in particular the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists – there are currently no effective spaces for dialogue with the authorities. nor with clear signs of openness.
In this context, we consider it especially relevant to resume and give continuity to the efforts promoted jointly with the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
However, these efforts have not been taken up by the current administration and, to date, there is no clear plan of action to strengthen the Mechanism based on the diagnosis prepared or a dialogue with civil society organizations.
This situation is particularly worrying given the persistence of violence, the delay in the attention of cases by the Mechanism, the limitations in operational capacities, the inadmissibility of requests for protection, the withdrawal of measures and other widely documented structural deficiencies.
For this reason, we believe it is essential to request that in the dialogues with government agencies you highlight the importance of the continuity of the Working Group for the strengthening of the protection policy.”
We continue to follow this.
