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Parents and peers of killed or missing students during a press conference on October 6, 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Authorities discovered over the weekend six adjoining pits containing 28 bodies, some badly burned and in pieces, on a hill outside the Guerrero state city of Iguala, where the students were last seen.
Enforced disappearances in Mexico
27 February 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On the night of September 26, 2014, 43 students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in the state of Guerrero, approximately 300 km south of Mexico City. Initially, the state authorities said they were abducted and [...]
Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice. Illustration: 3 men in hooded sweatshirts are dressed like gang members. In the background, a map of the world. Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice
19 September 2024 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
Almost 40% of homicides worldwide are linked to organised crime. According to the 2023 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), between 2015 and 2021, organised crime caused around 700,000 deaths, a number c [...]
Neither dead nor alive: Mexican mothers seek their missing loved ones
21 February 2020 by Paola Diaz
In 2017, Mexico approved a law on Disappearance of Persons and Disappearances Committed by Individuals, which aims to curb “multi-actor” disappearances. But this law is far from effective. Between 2006 and January 2019, the Nation [...]
Mexico president-elect vows probe on 43 missing students
26 September 2018 by AFP
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday promised the parents of 43 students who went missing in 2014 to create a commission to investigate the case, on the anniversary of their suspected massacre. Four yea [...]
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10 July 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Impunity in Mexico, disappointment in Georgia Transitional justice can take different forms. This week several international and national NGOs called in The Hague for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes in Mexico. They accuse State authorities of “col [...]
11 April 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Victims of military torture fear Mexico security bill One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned with acid and choking on earth as soldiers buried him alive. Mexico called in the armed forces a decade ag [...]