Sunday, December 6, 2009

Complaining

For the first time in history, in 2009 the country with the most complaints against it at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights is Mexico. It totaled 205 complaints (of which five were accepted), out of a hemispheric total of 1,255. Here's more:
The principal complaints, based on frequency, were for past issues, military justice, torture, freedom of expression in terms of murders and threats toward journalists, violence against women and especially the femicides of Ciudad Juárez, official corruption, and discrimination and violence against indigenous villages.

There were also complaints, and even have been audiences, related to violations of human rights of Central American immigrants that cross through Mexico to the United States and who complain of mistreatment and attacks of all types, from robberies to rapes and attempted murder.

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