Activists Urge Canada to Remove Mexico from 'Safe Countries' List CNW
go to original April 24, 2015

Advocates for students who disappeared in one of Mexico's state-sanctioned atrocities are in Toronto this week as part of a campaign to urge the Canadian government to recognize the human rights crisis in Mexico.

The Mexican delegation is part of a national movement of resistance that has emerged in Mexico following the Sept. 26, 2014, disappearances of 43 student activists from the Ayotzinapa Teachers' College in the city of Iguala.

...The delegation is bringing attention to Mexico's brutal landscape of violence and human rights abuses carried out with impunity through alliances between elements of the Mexican state and organized crime.

The delegation is urging the Canadian government to acknowledge and respond to the human rights crisis in Mexico. On April 28, it will testify on Parliament Hill before the federal Subcommittee for International Human Rights.

As part of the Make Mexico Safe movement, the delegation will ask the Canadian government to remove Mexico from its Designated Countries of Origin, or 'safe countries' list.

...Removing Mexico from the list would send a message to the Mexican government that Canada does not tolerate state-sanctioned human rights abuses, and that the Mexican government has a responsibility to protect its citizens.

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