Mexico's Human Rights Crisis /

Mexico's Human Rights Crisis / / ed. by Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Barbara Frey.

Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors. The sharp increase in the number of victims of homicide, disappearances and torture over the past de...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2016-2019
HerausgeberIn:
Anaya-Muñoz, Alejandro,
Frey, Barbara,
MitwirkendeR:
Ansolabehere, Karina,
Correa, Catalina Pérez,
Estévez, Ariadna,
Forné, Carlos Silva,
Frey, Barbara,
Gallagher, Janice,
Gzesh, Susan,
Hincapié, Sandra,
Leal, Laura Rubio Díaz-,
Muñoz, Alejandro Anaya-,
Rangel, Javier Treviño-,
Rivas, Rodrigo Gutiérrez,
Saltalamacchia, Natalia,
Tamés, Regina,
Vázquez, Daniel,
Waddell, Benjamin James,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 15 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE CRISIS UNFOLDS
  • Chapter 1. Deadly Forces: Use of Lethal Force by Mexican Security Forces 2007–2015
  • Chapter 2. Violence-Induced Internal Displacement in Mexico, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and Official State Responses
  • Chapter 3. Women’s Human Rights in the Armed Conflict in Mexico: Organized Crime, Collective Action, and State Responses
  • Chapter 4. The Invisible Violence Against Women in Mexico
  • PART II. THE CRISIS FOR MIGRANTS
  • Chapter 5. Superfluous Lives: Undocumented Migrants Traveling in Mexico
  • Chapter 6. Emigration, Violence, and Human Rights Violations in Central Mexico
  • Chapter 7. Bridging Legal Geographies: Contextual Adjudication in Mexican Asylum Claims
  • Chapter 8. Mexican Asylum Seekers and the Convention Against Torture
  • PART III. THE INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
  • Chapter 9. Democracia a la Mexicana: A Framework Conducive to Human Rights Violations
  • Chapter 10. Factors Blocking the Compliance with International Human Rights Norms in Mexico
  • Chapter 11. Human Rights and Justice in Mexico: An Analysis of Judicial Functions
  • Chapter 12. The Judicial Breakthrough Model: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Lethal Violence
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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