human rights currently The protection of human rights is not guaranteed in Mexico. During his visit to Mexico in October 2015, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Rada Al Hussein, attested that the number of people who had been forcibly killed for a country that was not at war was enormous. 151,233 people […]
| human rights currently | The protection of human rights is not guaranteed in Mexico. During his visit to Mexico in October 2015, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Rada Al Hussein, attested that the number of people who had been forcibly killed for a country that was not at war was enormous. 151,233 people were murdered between December 2006 and August 2015, including thousands of migrants. At least 26,000 people have disappeared. Thousands of women and children have been victims of sexual abuse and murder. Official statistics show that 98 percent of these crimes are unsolved, the majority of cases not even investigated. Organised crime is responsible for only some of these crimes. A substantial part of the crimes are committed by local, regional and federal police, or even the military, often under the guise of the war on drugs proclaimed by President Calderón in 2006. The conclusion of the “Institute for Economics and Peace” in its Mexico Peace Index 2015 is somewhat more positive: According to the index, the number of homicides has fallen by 30% in the last two years, with the states considered to be at least peaceful making the greatest progress. The differences between the 32 states remain significant, with Hidalgo being the most peaceful, followed by Yucatán, Querétaro, Campeche and Tlaxcala. The least peaceful state is Guerrero, followed by Morelos, Sinaloa, Michoacán and Guanajuato. For both sources of crime, the lack of efficiency of the judicial system and the low number of convictions are the main obstacles to positive, more peaceful development. |