U.N. REPORT SAYS OUTDATED JUDICIAL, POLITICAL SYSTEMS INHIBIT MEXICO'S ABILITY TO RESPOND TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

From: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico | Date: December 10, 2003 | Copyright information

In early December, a UN agency issued a stinging report on Mexico's human rights record, criticizing the longstanding structural shortcomings in Mexico's justice and political systems. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), with the assistance of 12 human rights organizations, produced the 224-page report at the request of President Vicente Fox's administration.

The UNHCHR report was released as the Fox government continues to wrestle with investigations of government- sponsored repression against leftists in the 1960s and 1970s and criticisms of the government's ...

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