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MEXICO
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Accessed Date:
23 October 2012
Title:
Mexico. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
12 September 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Source:
Advantage Mexico. Accent Discount Travel.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Mexique. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
23 October 2012
Title:
Mexico Peace Index 2022: Identifying and Measuring the Factors that Drive Peace
Source:
Institute for Economics & Peace
Date of Document:
May 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2019.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
March 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
Great Expectations and Grim Realities in AMLO's Mexico
Source:
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date of Document:
May 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Mexico Needs Comprehensive Strategies to Combat Violence against Journalists and Human Rights Defenders
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
13 May 2020
Author:
Gina Hinojosa; Maureen Meyer
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
Mexico: Background and U.S. Relations
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
21 March 2022
Author:
Clare Ribando Seelke; Joshua Klein
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Title:
Mexico. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Source:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
3 August 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
The socio-economic situation, including demographics, employment rates, economic sectors, and crime rates, particularly in Mexico City, Mérida, Puebla, Guadalajara and Monterrey (2017–September 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 September 2020
Accessed Date:
25 September 2020
Title:
Mexico's Immigration Control Efforts. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
3 January 2022
Author:
Clare Ribando Seelke
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Title:
“Better to Make Yourself Invisible”: Family Violence against People with Disabilities in Mexico
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
4 June 2020
Author:
Carlos Ríos-Espinosa
Accessed Date:
15 April 2021
Title:
Mexico Report: Sustainable Governance in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis
Author:
Wolfgang Muno; Jörg Faust
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
Neighbor at Risk: Mexico's Deepening Crisis
Source:
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date of Document:
September 2020
Accessed Date:
15 April 2021
Title:
Disorderly and Inhumane: Biden Administration Continues to Expel Asylum Seekers to Danger While U.S. Border Communities Stand Ready to Welcome
Source:
Human Rights First; Hope Border Institute
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Title:
The right to health: Challenges for mixed migration flows in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Source:
Danish Refugee Council; Jesuit Refugee Service Mexico
Date of Document:
31 March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Availability of health care and mental health services, including in Mérida, Mexico City, and Guadalajara; treatment of persons with mental illness by society and by the authorities; state protection, including recourse and complaints ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 September 2022
Accessed Date:
26 September 2022
Title:
Violence Against or Obstruction of Health Care in Mexico in 2020
Source:
Insecurity Insight
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Facing Mexico's Mental Health Fallout
Source:
NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 52, No. 3
Author:
Beatriz Reyes-Foster; Whitney L. Duncan
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Title:
Mexico. Civic Freedom Monitor.
Source:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Date of Document:
30 July 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
20 March 2023
Accessed Date:
28 July 2023
Title:
Mexico. Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico. World Report 2022: Events of 2021.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Mexico
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/31/MEX/1
Date of Document:
23 August 2018
Accessed Date:
7 August 2019
Title:
Compilation on Mexico
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/31/MEX/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
3 September 2018
Accessed Date:
7 August 2019
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Mexico
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/31/MEX/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
24 August 2018
Accessed Date:
7 August 2019
Title:
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
4 December 2019
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Mexico. Freedom in the World 2022.
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on his mission to Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
12 February 2018
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Chapter V: Follow-up of Recommendations issued by the IACHR in its Country or Thematic Reports. Mexico. Annual Report 2021.
Code:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 64 rev. 1
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Defenders Beyond Borders: Migrant Rights Defenders Under Attack in Central America, Mexico & The United States
Source:
Frontline Defenders et al.
Date of Document:
September 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Any Version of “Remain in Mexico” Policy Would Be Unlawful, Inhumane, and Deadly
Source:
Human Rights First
Date of Document:
September 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico. Chapter IV.A: Human Rights Development in the Region. Annual Report 2021.
Code:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 64 rev. 1
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Crimes Against Humanity: Decades of Violence and Abuse in Mexican Institutions for Children and Adults with Disabilities
Source:
Disability Rights International
Date of Document:
7 December 2020
Author:
Laurie Ahern et al.
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Report on the situation of environmental human rights defenders, individuals and communities, in Mexico, 2021
Source:
Mexican Center for Environmental Law
Author:
Citlalli Gonzalez Chacon et al.
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Information received from Mexico on follow-up to the concluding observations on its sixth periodic report
Date of Document:
18 February 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Submission of the International Commission of Jurists to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in View of the Committee's Examination of Mexico's Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports Under Article 35 of th...
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Date of Document:
20 April 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 February 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
The right to protest is under threat in Mexico
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
18 May 2022
Author:
Erika Guevara-Rosas; Edith Olivares Ferreto
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Title One: Chapters II, III and IV. Mexico's Constitution of 1917 with Amendments through 2015.
Source:
Mexico; Comparative Constitutions Project
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Constitutional reform in Mexico: no limits to ius sanguinis
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
4 March 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Mexico
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
August 2015
Accessed Date:
1 August 2017
Title:
Mexico. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Voter identification card (credencial para votar); whether a cardholder must make notification of a change of address; whether it can be used as an identification document; whether the card is punched in some manner once a person has voted; ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
8 August 2014
Accessed Date:
28 August 2014
Title:
Whether a third party can access personal information included in government databases, including home address, through the Unique Population Registration Code (Clave Única de Registro de Población, CURP) or driver's license; protection of ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 July 2018
Accessed Date:
23 August 2018
Title:
Eligibility, requirements, and procedures to obtain permanent residence; rights and obligations of permanent residents; conditions under which permanent residence is cancelled (2020–August 2022)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 September 2022
Accessed Date:
27 September 2022
Title:
Mexico and Venezuela: Residence status of Venezuelan refugees and transiting migrants in Mexico, including requirements and procedures to apply for residence status; rights and obligations associated with residence status; documents issued (2016-May 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 June 2018
Accessed Date:
27 August 2019
Title:
Requirements and procedures for obtaining temporary resident status; frequency with which temporary resident status must be renewed and procedures for renewing it; rights and obligations of temporary residents; requirements and procedures ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
20 December 2018
Accessed Date:
21 August 2019
Title:
Update of MEX106345 of 26 July 2019 on the circumstances under which a person would lose their refugee status in Mexico, including whether leaving the country and applying for refugee status abroad results in automatic loss; circumstances under ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 August 2019
Accessed Date:
27 August 2019
Title:
Update of MEX106346 of 9 August 2019 on the requirements and procedures to obtain a copy of an asylum record, including from outside the country; processing time for requests; circumstances under which an individual would not be able to obtain ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
22 August 2019
Accessed Date:
29 August 2019
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Mexico Election Guide: June 2017 Gubernatorial Election and July 2018 Presidential Election
Source:
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Date of Document:
31 May 2017
Accessed Date:
1 August 2017
Title:
United Mexican States. Election for President of 1 July 2018.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Mexico: Senate.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Mexico: Chamber of Deputies.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico's Illiberal Democratic Trap. Divisive Politics and Democratic Dangers in Latin America.
Source:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date of Document:
17 February 2021
Editor:
Thomas Carothers; Andreas E. Feldmann
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Electoral Violence and Illicit Influence in Mexico's Hot Land. Latin America Report N°89.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
2 June 2021
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Elections in Mexico: 2021 Midterm Federal Elections: Frequently Asked Questions
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Date of Document:
2 June 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
General Law on Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence
Accessed Date:
17 August 2015
Title:
Mexico. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
7 August 2019
Title:
Mexico: Domestic Violence. COI Compilation.
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
May 2017
Accessed Date:
1 August 2017
Title:
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention: Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
2 February 2017
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
List of issues and questions in relation to the ninth periodic report of Mexico. Addendum: Responses of Mexico.
Code:
CEDAW/C/MEX/Q/9/Add.1
Date of Document:
27 March 2018
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Mexico's double pandemic: Femicide and impunity during Covid-19.
Source:
Latin America Bureau
Date of Document:
5 May 2021
Author:
Fernanda Alvarez-Piñeiro
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Situation of single women and of women who head their own households without male support, including access to employment, housing and support services, particularly in Mexico City and Mérida (Yucatán) (2017-October 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
5 February 2020
Accessed Date:
25 February 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
25 July 2018
Accessed Date:
7 August 2019
Title:
Child custody rights, including legislation; whether a parent may relocate with a child without notifying the other parent, including in situations involving domestic violence and whether this is affected by protection or restraining orders...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 April 2022
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
Domestic violence, including treatment of survivors of domestic violence; legislation; protection and support services available, including psychological services, particularly in Mexico City and Mérida (2017–September 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
11 September 2020
Accessed Date:
29 September 2020
Title:
Mexico Gender Assessment
Date of Document:
11 April 2019
Author:
Gabriela Inchauste et al.
Accessed Date:
7 August 2019
Title:
Surviving Death: Police and Military Torture of Women in Mexico
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 June 2016
Accessed Date:
19 August 2016
Title:
Submission to the CRPD Committee, 26th session, for the Review of Mexico
Source:
Mexicanas con Discapacidad Women Enabled International
Date of Document:
14 February 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
The situation and treatment of single older women who return to or relocate within Mexico without family support, including access to employment, housing, and social benefits; whether single older women are at a heightened risk of violence ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
26 August 2020
Accessed Date:
15 September 2020
Title:
“Like I'm Drowning”: Children and Families Sent to Harm by the US ‘Remain in Mexico' Program
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
6 January 2021
Author:
Michael Garcia Bochenek
Accessed Date:
15 April 2021
Title:
Mexico: Landmark Reproductive Rights Rulings
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 September 2021
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Using Data to Shed Light on the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence in Mexico
Source:
Data-Pop Alliance
Date of Document:
27 October 2020
Author:
Ivette Yáñez Soria et al.
Accessed Date:
16 April 2021
Title:
Information received from Mexico on follow-up to the concluding observations on its ninth periodic report
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
21 October 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Domestic violence within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, including treatment of survivors of domestic violence; impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on protection and support services available, including psychological services (2020–September 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 September 2021
Accessed Date:
23 September 2021
Title:
Women whose past partners are involved in criminal activities and implications for their safety (2019–August 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
27 August 2021
Accessed Date:
17 September 2021
Title:
Indigenous Women: The Invisible Victims of Femicide in Mexico
Source:
Harvard International Review
Date of Document:
30 November 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Justice on Trial: Failures in criminal investigations of feminicides preceded by disappearance in the state of Mexico
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
20 September 2021
Accessed Date:
28 September 2021
Title:
Domestic Violence in Mexico in Times of COVID-19
Source:
Data-Pop Alliance
Date of Document:
23 April 2020
Author:
Berenice Fernández Nieto
Editor:
Ivette Yáñez Soria; María Antonia Bravo
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Violence Against Women in Mexico
Source:
National Citizen Observatory on Femicide et al.
Date of Document:
February 2021
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
As US States Restrict Abortion Access, Mexican States Expand It
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
30 May 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI). COI Compilation.
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
May 2017
Accessed Date:
1 August 2017
Title:
Treatment of individuals based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) by society and authorities, including legislation; access to housing, employment, education, health care, and ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
8 April 2022
Accessed Date:
27 April 2022
Title:
Public Opinion of Transgender Rights in Mexico
Source:
University of California, Los Angeles. Williams Institute.
Date of Document:
December 2020
Author:
Winston Luhur et al.
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Situation of sexual minorities, including in Mexico City; protection and support services offered by the state and civil society (2015-July 2017)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 February 2018
Accessed Date:
27 April 2018
Title:
Societal norms on gender identity expressions, including in indigenous communities (2016-May 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
25 May 2018
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Mexico. Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019: Recognition before the law.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
September 2020
Author:
Zhan Chiam et al.
Accessed Date:
16 April 2021
Title:
Queer Refugee Hearings Program: Country of Origin Information Report: Mexico
Source:
Capital Rainbow Refuge
Date of Document:
April 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico: Barriers for Trans People in Guanajuato State
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 June 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Mexico. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2022, Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
7 June 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
19 July 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Mexico.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
15 June 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Organized Crime and Violence in Guanajuato
Source:
University of San Diego. Justice in Mexico.
Date of Document:
August 2020
Author:
Laura Y. Calderón
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Why the Jalisco Cartel Does Not Dominate Mexico's Criminal Landscape
Date of Document:
11 June 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, CJNG), its activities, areas of operation and influence; the ability of the CJNG to track and retaliate against people who move to other areas of Mexico, including Mérida...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 September 2021
Accessed Date:
17 September 2021
Title:
The crime situation in Mérida, Mexico City, Campeche, and Cabo San Lucas; organized crime and cartel groups active in these cities (as well as Yucatán state, State of Campeche, and Baja California Sur); the ability and motivation of organized ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
8 September 2021
Accessed Date:
23 September 2021
Title:
Keeping Oil from the Fire: Tackling Mexico's Fuel Theft Racket. Latin America Briefing N°46.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
25 March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico: 2021 Special Report
Source:
University of San Diego. Justice in Mexico.
Date of Document:
October 2021
Editor:
Laura Y. Calderón et al.
Accessed Date:
29 October 2021
Title:
KRE in Mexico. KRE Global Monitor. December 2016 – March 2017.
Source:
Liberty Speciality Markets; red24
Date of Document:
24 March 2017
Accessed Date:
2 August 2017
Title:
Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG)
Date of Document:
8 July 2020
Accessed Date:
29 September 2020
Title:
Policy Brief. The New Generation: Mexico's Emerging Organized Crime Threat.
Source:
University of San Diego. Justice in Mexico.
Date of Document:
19 March 2018
Author:
Lucy La Rosa; David A. Shirk
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Mexico. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2022, Volume II: Money Laundering.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Drug cartels, including Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel (Cartel del Golfo), La Familia Michoacana, and the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO); activities and areas of operation; ability to track individuals within Mexico (2017-August 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
15 August 2019
Accessed Date:
28 August 2019
Title:
Violence within: Understanding the Use of Violent Practices Among Mexican Drug Traffickers
Source:
University of San Diego. Justice in Mexico.
Date of Document:
November 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
The Strategic Implications of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación
Source:
Journal of Strategic Security
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Crime and criminality, including organized crime, alliances between criminal groups and their areas of control; groups targeted by cartels; state response; protection available to victims, including witness protection (2018–September 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
21 September 2020
Accessed Date:
29 September 2020
Title:
Mexico's Everyday War: Guerrero and the Trials of Peace. Latin America Report N°80.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
4 May 2020
Accessed Date:
16 April 2021
Title:
Whether 'death threats' are specifically mentioned in the Federal Criminal Code (Código Penal Federal, CPF) and/or state criminal codes; if so, punishment specified
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 January 2010
Accessed Date:
23 October 2012
Title:
La Unión Tepito Inner Workings Revealed in Mexico City Raid
Date of Document:
31 October 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Mexico's Out-Of-Control Criminal Market
Source:
Foreign Policy at Brookings
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Vanda Felbab-Brown
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Date of Document:
13 February 2018
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Virus-proof Violence: Crime and COVID-19 in Mexico and the Northern Triangle. Latin America Report N°83.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
13 November 2020
Accessed Date:
16 April 2021
Date of Document:
5 May 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
More than Cartels: Counting Mexico's Crime Rings
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
8 May 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
The Infomex platform [or National Transparency Platform (Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia)], including the information it contains, its origin and reliability (2014–December 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 January 2021
Accessed Date:
14 April 2021
Title:
The Next Generation of Criminal Groups Driving Violence in Mexico
Date of Document:
12 August 2021
Author:
Victoria Dittmar et al.
Accessed Date:
27 April 2022
Title:
How Drug Cartels Moved into Illegal Logging in Mexico. Timber Mafias - Preying on Latin America's Forests.
Date of Document:
18 September 2020
Accessed Date:
27 April 2022
Title:
Mexico Ablaze as Jalisco Cartel Seeks Criminal Hegemony
Date of Document:
5 January 2022
Author:
Sugeyry Romina Gándara
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexican Drug Trafficking and Cartel Operations amid COVID-19
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
14 October 2021
Author:
June S. Beittel; Liana W. Rosen
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
The Los Zetas Cartel (Cártel de Los Zetas), its activities, areas of operation and influence; the ability and motivation of the Los Zetas to track and retaliate against people who move to other areas of Mexico, including Mérida, Campeche, Mexico City...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
25 March 2022
Accessed Date:
21 April 2022
Title:
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Source:
Journal of Strategic Security
Date of Document:
December 2019
Author:
Nathan P. Jones; John P. Sullivan
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
4 May 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
18 July 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Date of Document:
30 January 2020
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
8 March 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
13 November 2020
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
9 May 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Beltrán Leyva Organization
Date of Document:
6 October 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
5 May 2020
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Date of Document:
10 July 2020
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
The Horrors of Zacatecas Could Happen Anywhere in Mexico
Date of Document:
10 January 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexican soldiers deployed to Aguililla to combat organized crime and cartel rivalry
Source:
Justice in Mexico
Date of Document:
9 March 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Betrayals, In-Fighting, Mysteriously Vanished Leader - Is Jalisco Cartel on the Brink?
Date of Document:
25 May 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Indigenous Communities in Rural Mexico Get No Help Against Constant Criminal Threats
Date of Document:
13 May 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Police Killings Spike Amid Soaring Violence in Zacatecas, Mexico
Date of Document:
4 April 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Cartel recruitment practices, including information on whether taxi, truck or other transportation drivers are particularly targeted for forced recruitment by the cartels; whether there are consequences for refusing to be recruited; ability of ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
25 August 2022
Accessed Date:
21 September 2022
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Five Years On, What's Still Missing from Mexico's National Anti-Corruption System?
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
15 April 2020
Author:
Gina Hinojosa; Maureen Meyer
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
24 July 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Whether police from one jurisdiction could process complaints related to crimes that occur outside of their jurisdiction (2014-July 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
13 August 2015
Accessed Date:
25 August 2015
Title:
Whether the regional office of the Attorney General of the Republic (Procuraduría General de la República, PGR) has the jurisdiction to handle a sexual assault complaint in Mexico, including Guanajuato; whether a person can file a complaint for...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 January 2013
Accessed Date:
27 September 2013
Title:
Corruption that Kills: Why Mexico Needs an International Mechanism to Combat Impunity
Source:
Open Society Foundations. Open Society Justice Initiative.
Date of Document:
1 May 2018
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Procedures to initiate a criminal complaint or investigation, including whether a complaint may be registered over the phone and on the internet, particularly in Mexico City, Nuevo León, Jalisco and Veracruz (2017-August 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 August 2019
Accessed Date:
30 August 2019
Title:
State of Privacy in Mexico
Source:
Privacy International; Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Date of Document:
January 2019
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Access to a lawyer during the first hours of custody in Mexico: A Situation Analysis
Source:
Association for the Prevention of Torture
Date of Document:
1 April 2019
Author:
Samahanta Paredón
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Shadow Report by Mexican Civil Society Organisations for the UN Committee Against Torture 2012-2019
Source:
Asistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos et al.
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Mexico's National Anti-Corruption System: A Historic Opportunity in the Fight against Corruption
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
May 2018
Author:
Maureen Meyer; Gina Hinojosa
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Mexico's Rule of Law Efforts: 11 Years After Criminal Justice Reforms. Challenges and Opportunities for the López Obrador Administration.
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
November 2019
Author:
Gina Hinojosa; Maureen Meyer
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
The Implementing Law of Mexico's National Prosecutor's Office: Progress and Pending Issues
Source:
Fundación para el Debido Proceso; Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Úrsula Indacochea; Maureen Meyer
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Forced Confessions: Tracking Torture and Mistreatment in Mexico's Accusatorial Criminal Justice System
Source:
University of San Diego. Justice in Mexico.
Date of Document:
January 2020
Accessed Date:
21 February 2020
Title:
Update: Researching Mexican Law and Mexican Legal System
Date of Document:
December 2019
Author:
Francisco A. Avalos; Elisa Donnadieu
Accessed Date:
16 April 2021
Title:
Information received from Mexico on follow-up to the concluding observations on its seventh periodic report
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
28 July 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Mexico: Torture Worsens in Times of Pandemic. Executive Summary.
Source:
World Organisation Against Torture et al.
Date of Document:
July 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico: A Closer Look at State Anti-Corruption Prosecutors
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
March 2021
Author:
Stephanie Brewer; Moses Ngong
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Access to databases of personal information by police or a third party, including who has access; recent data breaches; use of spyware; state's response (2017–July 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
14 September 2021
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
A Travesty of Justice for Indigenous People in Mexico's Prisons
Source:
Open Society Foundations
Date of Document:
18 March 2021
Author:
Tomas Lopez Sarabia
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico Transparency Rapid Response Project. Final Report: October 1, 2016 to January 31, 2022.
Source:
United States Agency for International Development
Date of Document:
January 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Criminal Structure Within the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Nayarit and Crimes Against Humanity
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
June 2021
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
The Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Review: Mexico
Date of Document:
10 December 2021
Author:
Jonathan Edward Adams; Milka López
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Prevention must be central to national policy to stop enforced disappearance, UN committee finds
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
False Suspicions: Arbitrary Detentions by Police in Mexico
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
13 July 2017
Accessed Date:
25 August 2017
Title:
Police corruption, including police affiliation with cartels and police effectiveness; state protection, including complaints mechanisms available to report instances of corruption (2017–September 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 September 2020
Accessed Date:
23 September 2020
Title:
Mexico's Fight against Transnational Organized Crime
Source:
Army University Press. Military Review.
Date of Document:
24 May 2018
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Police reform and security strategies in Mexico in the context of the war on drugs and U.S. support for these efforts
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
July 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Mexico's new National Guard is breaking its vow to respect human rights
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
8 November 2020
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico: Militarization of public security will lead to more human rights violations and perpetuate impunity
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
9 September 2022
Accessed Date:
16 September 2022
Title:
Violence Against Journalists in Mexico: In Brief
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
22 March 2022
Author:
Clare Ribando Seelke et al.
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Mexico Journalists Face Violence From Both Officials and Crime Groups: Report
Date of Document:
21 March 2018
Author:
Angelika Albaladejo
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Turning the Tide on Impunity: Protection and Access to Justice for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Gina Hinojosa et al
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Mexico. Freedom on the Net 2021.
Author:
Mariel García-Montes
Editor:
Elisha Aaron et al.
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression on his mission to Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
13 November 2018
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Journalist receiving protection gunned down in northwestern Mexico
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
19 May 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
Mexico: Address Persistent Violence Against Journalists
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
3 May 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Mexico. Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2021. Volume 2: Annual Report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.
Code:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II Doc. 64 rev. 1
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Date of Document:
26 May 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
The High Risks of Documenting Mexico's Disappeared
Source:
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Date of Document:
30 August 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Call for investigation as number of murdered journalists rises
Date of Document:
1 June 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Mexico. International Religious Freedom Report for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
2 June 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Treatment of Tzeltal people in Chiapas by society and authorities, including displacement of members or supporters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN); situation in Tenejapa in 2011 and presently (2015-September 2017)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
22 September 2017
Accessed Date:
27 August 2018
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on her visit to Mexico
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
28 June 2018
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Mexico. The Indigenous World 2022.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2022
Author:
José del Val et al.
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Caught Between Bullets and Neglect: Lack of Protection for Defenders of the Territory in the Tarahumara Sierra
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
24 January 2019
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Observations on the State of Indigenous Human Rights in Mexico
Source:
Cultural Survival
Date of Document:
March 2018
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Mexico. Indigenous peoples' rights to autonomy and self-government as a manifestation of the right to self-determination.
Source:
Organization of American States. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. et al.
Date of Document:
1 March 2019
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Mexico. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
May 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined eighteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of Mexico
Code:
CERD/C/MEX/CO/18-21
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
19 September 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
Situation and treatment of Indigenous persons by society and by the authorities; state protection and support services available; situation of Indigenous persons living in cities, particularly in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 September 2020
Accessed Date:
25 September 2020
Title:
Information received from Mexico on follow-up to the concluding observations on its combined eighteenth to twenty-first periodic reports
Code:
CERD/C/MEX/FCO/18-21
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
26 November 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
“There is a Target on Us” - The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on African Migrants at Mexico's Southern Border
Source:
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Date of Document:
January 2021
Author:
S. Priya Morley et al.
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Reckoning with racism against Black migrants in Mexico
Date of Document:
16 February 2021
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Mexico Must Cease Violence Against Migrants and Offer Solutions to Avert Asylum Crisis at its Southern Border
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
9 September 2021
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Circumstances under which victims of domestic violence and gang violence are granted protection; protection offered to claimants who do not meet Refugee Convention grounds, but instead claim a risk to their life or a risk of torture, or cruel and unusual treatment (2016-August 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 October 2018
Accessed Date:
13 March 2019
Title:
Immigration Laws Regulating the Admission and Exclusion of Aliens at the Border
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
21 July 2020
Accessed Date:
24 September 2020
Title:
The Trump Administration's “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Enforcement Policy
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
2 February 2021
Author:
William A. Kandel
Accessed Date:
16 April 2021
Title:
“Come Back Later”: Challenges for Asylum Seekers Waiting at Ports of Entry
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America
Date of Document:
August 2018
Author:
Adam Isacson et al.
Accessed Date:
9 August 2019
Title:
Expedited Removal of Aliens: An Introduction
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
25 March 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Processing Aliens at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Recent Policy Changes
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
15 November 2019
Author:
Hillel R. Smith et al.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2020
Title:
One Year after the U.S.-Mexico Agreement: Reshaping Mexico's Migration Policies
Source:
Migration Policy Institute
Date of Document:
June 2020
Author:
Ariel G. Ruiz Soto
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Mexico: Abuses Against Asylum Seekers at US Border
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
5 March 2021
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Mexico: Mass Expulsion of Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 September 2021
Accessed Date:
24 September 2021
Title:
Displacement Tracking Matrix. Flow monitoring of migrants in Tapachula and Tenosique, Mexico, Round 1: Health and Migration.
Source:
International Organization for Migration
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Protection Monitoring: Mexico. Quarterly Report: January, February & March 2022.
Source:
Danish Refugee Council; Jesuit Refugee Service
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Mexico: Asylum Seekers Face Abuses at Southern Border
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
6 June 2022
Accessed Date:
20 September 2022
Title:
Exit procedures at Mexican airports, including documentation required, and security checks performed prior to departure; whether access to a police computer network or database is available to security officials at international airports ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 September 2022
Accessed Date:
21 September 2022
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 29 September 2022:
Title:
Mexico. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/mexico/
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
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