Impunity for Human Rights Abuses Remains a Problem in Mexico: US Department of State J. Jaime Hernandez - El Universal
go to original June 26, 2015

Impunity for human rights abuses remains a problem throughout Mexico with extremely low rates of prosecution for all forms of crime, according to the Mexico 2014 Human Rights report published by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the U.S. Department of State.

It added that "impunity and corruption remained serious problems, particularly at the state and local levels, in the security forces, and in the judicial sector."

According to the report, "significant human rights-related problems included police and military involvement in serious abuses, such as unlawful killings, torture, disappearances, and physical abuse."

Civil society organizations, the United Nations, and the country?s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported the following additional problems: poor prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; threats and violence against human rights defenders and journalists; abuse of migrants; domestic violence; trafficking in persons; abuse of persons with disabilities; social and economic discrimination against some members of the indigenous population; threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons; and exploitation of child labor.

In its report, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor highlighted the cases of Tlatlaya and Ayotzinapa.

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