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September 27, 2018 - 40 Years, 40 Stories
Mexico’s Criminal Justice Transformation
It has been 10 years since Mexico adopted a critical Constitutional reform that transformed its criminal justice system. The new accusatorial system promises speedier, transparent, public trials, and aligns Mexico with most countries in the Americas ...
September 5, 2018 - Grantee Publications
Handbook Recommends Policy Improvements to Aid Reconstruction after Mexico City Earthquake
A handbook provides a public policy guide for Mexico City’s efforts for reconstruction after the 2019 earthquake.
September 5, 2018 - Grantee Publications
Recommendations for National Criminal Justice Reforms in Mexico
Report from México Evalúa recommends national coordination to address delays in criminal justice system.
September 5, 2018 - Grantee News
UN Resolution Calls for Strengthening Press Freedom in Mexico
A UN Human Rights Committee resolution finds the Mexican government at fault for failing in its obligation to protect journalists after the 2005 kidnapping and torture of journalist Lydia Cacho.
August 25, 2018 - Grantee News
Investigating Miscarriage of Justice after Young Woman’s Killing
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights officially agreed to review the 2004 murder of Nadia Alejandra Muciño Márquez (announcement in Spanish), making it the first time the Commission will scrutinize the systematic violence against women in ...
August 20, 2018 - Grantee Publications
Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in Northeastern Nigeria
As violence from the Boko Haram insurgency subsides in northeastern Nigeria, a report from the Centre for Democracy and Development recommends community-based approaches to reconciliation and transitional justice.
June 12, 2018 - 40 Years, 40 Stories
A Research and Writing Grant as an Inflection Point in a Career
I wrote the proposal for MacArthur’s Research and Writing Competition in early 1998 and was notified in fall 1998 that I was awarded a grant for my proposed topic, “Integrating Russia into the International Community ...
June 7, 2018 - From The Field
Disappearance of Mexican Students to be Reinvestigated
The reinvestigation of the 2014 disappearances of 43 college students will be under the supervision of a truth commission, to be led by the nation’s top human rights body and parents of the victims.
May 31, 2018 - Publication
Assessing Mexico’s Response to Forced Disappearances
A report by I(dh)eas, Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos developed in partnership with several families of missing persons in Mexico and submitted to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances outlines Mexico’s shortcomings in ...
