IACHR Publishes Report on the Human Rights of Migrants and Others in Mexico (August 18, 2014) [1]
On August 18, 2014, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights published a report [3] titled “Human Rights of Migrants and Other Persons in the Context of Human Mobility in Mexico.” The report’s purpose is to “assess the human rights situation of the international and domestic migrants in the context of human mobility in Mexico and to make recommendations to ensure that the migration and immigration policies, laws and practices in the United Mexican States . . . comport with the international human rights obligations it has undertaken to protect migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, victims of human trafficking and the internally displaced persons.” According to the report, “[a]t the present time, the extreme vulnerability of migrants and other persons to the heightened risks of human mobility in Mexico is one of worse human tragedies in the region, involving large-scale and systematic human rights violations.”