Mexico Accepts UN Human Rights Report, Says Recommendations Will Be Acted Upon
Rocio Zayas - The News
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March 21, 2014
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico on Thursday accepted 166 of the 176 human rights recommendations proposed by the United Nations in a report earlier this week.

In presenting Mexico’s response to recommendations from the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva Switzerland, Foreign Relations Secretariat’s Undersecretary of Human Rights Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo said that Mexico is committed to human rights, and that an objective and responsible analysis was carried out on each of the recommendations.

Mexico also presented clarifications of two further recommendations and took note of the remaining eight.

Gómez and Interior Human Rights Undersecretary Lía Limón García said that Mexico will design a mechanism to follow up on the UPR recommendations.

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