The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico has denounced the shooting of an activist who survived being shot multiple times in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, by an unknown attacker.
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Thousands of children from indigenous communities in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca
Mexico’s government publicly apologized on Monday for failing to prevent the killings of three women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and for the negligence of officials in investigating the crimes.
For more than nine years, two Indigenous women in Mexico have taken on the military and the authorities to demand justice after they were raped by soldiers in the southern state of Guerrero in 2002.
In one of the most perilous countries to tell the truth, journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro risks her life to expose the web of corruption behind Mexico’s escalating drug war.
MEXICO CITY- For the first time, Mexico has a female attorney general - the highest post ever reached by a woman in this country. But elation at this achievement is overshadowed by grief over the brutal murders of women police chiefs and activists, and the persecution endured by the family of another woman who was killed in 2010.
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