Mexico Has Most Human Rights Complaints Before InterAmerican Commission Proceso
go to original August 29, 2013

Despite the fact that the national and state commissions on Human Rights together perform with an annual budget of approximately 100 million dollars, the results are not very promising.

Mexico collects 20% of the almost two thousand human rights violations complaints received every year across the entire American continent [North and South America], according to Emilio Álvarez Icaza Longoria, executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH).

During the conference titled “The Current State of the Ombudsman in Mexico: Conditions and Perspectives,” held in the Iberoamerican University, Álvarez Icaza indicated that the majority of complaints originating in Mexico are for problems with State civil servants, abusive practices of authorities and severe problems with injustice.

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Translated by Penn Tomassetti

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