UN Human Rights Council Concerned Over 'Deteriorated Situation' in Mexico Television del Sur
go to original September 16, 2015

The Mexican government presented its report to the UN on measures it is taking to stem human rights violations. But human rights advocates and activists charge that practices such as enforced disappearances, the use of torture to obtain confessions, and impunity for those responsible are commonplace. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. (teleSUR English)

The U.N. team of experts that formed the Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances Work Group in Mexico presented a report Tuesday saying they were extremely concerned with the “deteriorated situation” in the country.

“We are especially worried after confirming that the majority of the fundamental recommendations the group made to the Mexican authorities in order to face and deal with structural problems regarding enforced disappearances have not been fully implemented,” the U.N. team said in their report.

The document was presented to the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, and was based on a follow up of the recommendations the group made to the Mexican government after their visit to the country in March 2011.

“The Mexican government has advanced very little in the implementation of the recommendations made to them,” the report adds.

“But, even more concerning to the Work Group is the deteriorated situation that prevails in Mexico since the group visited the country in 2011 and presented its report,” the statement says.

The experts agreed with a statement made in February by the Enforced Disappearances Committee of the United Nations, when they sustained that based on information gathered by the committee clearly illustrates a context in Mexico of widespread disappearances throughout the country, many of which can be described as enforced disappearances.

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