Human Rights!” Just the thought of this controversial subject immediately brings images and discussions to mind of topics such as sweatshops, equality, segregation, racism, sexism, human trafficking, and many others surrounding anything that involves or is inherently equal in all human beings. Examples may include issues of freedom, abuse, enslavement, imprisonment, and execution. The history of human rights extends to past documents as early as 600A.D. notated in the “Constitution of Medina” where various Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Pagan religious groups were declared as “One Nation” by the prophet Muhammad (Wikipedia).
More recently, the topic of human rights has been identified multiple times in the media regarding Mexico and the
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Based on the General Attorney’s Office (Procuraduría General de la República-PGR), there have been 12,456 homicides in 2010, and an aggregate of 30,196 homicides from December 2006 when Felipe Calderón became president of Mexico and then he deployed military forces to combat drug cartels. The total amount of deaths since 2010 represents 41.2% of the total number of homicides since 2006, therefore, 2010 displays the worst year in violence ever experienced by people from Mexico. In Ciudad Juarez the number of deaths for 2010 surpassed 3,100 many of them being …show more content…
Most of these people who vanished apparently occurred during the course of sanctioned security operations. Even though the federal document of criminal code clearly classifies that forced disappearance is a crime, unfortunately it does not establish that it is a crime in several penal codes. The federal criminal code and the legislation of the sixteen federal entities that classify forced disappearance as a crime apparently do not use the same definition, and penalties can vary according to the jurisdiction. Fifteen states currently classify forced disappearance as a crime distinct from murder or kidnapping.
Recent reports of mass abductions of Central American migrants have even prompted the governments of Guatemala and El Salvador to call on the Mexican government to be held for accountability for the treatment of migrants crossing into Mexico based on info in Amnesty International's 2014 human rights report on