Mexico

Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabanas during Mexico’s Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations Office at Geneva. 7 November 2018.
UN Geneva/Daniel Johnson

Mexico urged to continue progress on enforced disappearances, women’s rights and press freedom

7 November 2018
Human Rights

Mexico faces “considerable challenges” in guaranteeing people’s human rights, its ambassador in Geneva told UN Member States on Wednesday, before being urged to continue tackling corruption and impunity relating to a range of violations including enforced disappearances and torture.

Fifteen-year-old girl looks out from a transit center in Guatemala City.
UNICEF/Tanya Bindra

Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants kick off a global migration search movement

6 November 2018
Migrants and Refugees

As mothers searching for the whereabouts of their migrant children amassed last weekend in Mexico City, a historic nine countries were represented, as well as the United Nations International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project.

Mexico City skyline (Centro Histórico, Ciudad de México, Mexico).
UNDP Mexico/Andrea Egan

FROM THE FIELD: Urban Mexico moves toward better livelihoods, cleaner cities

30 October 2018
SDGs

Mexico is improving the lives of the 80 percent of its inhabitants residing in cities, by pushing towards less polluted, more eco-friendly environments, thanks to support from the UN.

President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

At UN Assembly, Mexico says world headed back to isolationism, protectionist systems

25 September 2018
UN Affairs

Addressing world leaders on the first day of United Nations General Assembly’s annual general debate, Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, warned against isolationism and protectionism, and urged on UN Member States to counter the troubling trends by bolstering multilateralism.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN rights chief urges action in Mexico to end ‘outrageous’ wave of disappearances

30 May 2018
Human Rights

Authorities in Mexico are being urged to act to end what the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has described as “a wave of enforced disappearances” in the city of Nuevo Laredo, amid “strong indications” that federal security forces may be involved.

A protest rally in Mexico City on the case of Ayoitzinapa rural school attended by the 43 disappeared students..
UNIC/Mexico

Mexico: UN report points to torture, cover-ups in probe into disappearance of 43 students

15 March 2018
Human Rights

The United Nations human rights wing said Thursday that it has strong grounds to believe that the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students from a rural Mexican college in 2014 was marred by torture and cover-ups.

Irregular migrants atop freight train, ‘La Bestia’ which takes them through Mexico towards the US. (file)
IOM/Keith Dannemiller

Migrant deaths at US-Mexico border surpass 400 in 2017: IOM

7 February 2018
Interviews

Although migrant apprehensions at the US-Mexican border decreased in 2017, the number of people who died while making the crossing remained high, the UN Migration Agency (IOM) reports.

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Irregular migrants atop freight train, ‘La Bestia’ which takes them through Mexico towards the US. (file)
IOM/Keith Dannemiller

Migrant deaths along US-Mexico border remain high despite drop in crossings – UN agency

6 February 2018
Migrants and Refugees

The number of migrants losing their lives attempting to cross the United States-Mexico border in 2017 remained high in spite of substantial decrease in the number of arrests along the frontier, the United Nations migration agency reported on Tuesday.

Iker, 9, and his sister Yeimire, 6, stand outside their home which was destroyed in an earthquake in San Andrés Hueyapan, Tetela del Volcán municipality, Morelos, Mexico, Thursday 21 September 2017.
UNICEF/UN0125939/Solís

UNICEF urges child-centred budget decisions for rebuilding of quake-hit areas in Mexico

2 October 2017
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for putting children at the heart of public and private investment in reconstruction of the areas devastated by two major earthquakes in September.
Luis Videgaray Caso, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's seventy-second session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

‘The people and Government of Mexico stand,’ quake-hit country’s leader tells UN Assembly

21 September 2017
In midst of recovery from two major earthquakes in the last two weeks, Luis Videgaray Caso, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico told world leaders today that his country takes comfort in the global solidarity shown during this tragic time