As part of that process, the Federal Center published a new legitimization protocol to include a mechanism that allows for submission of complaints regarding alleged irregularities that may happen prior to, during, and after the vote. Victims relatives and civil society continued to criticize handling of the original investigation by the Attorney Generals Office, noting there had been no convictions related to the disappearances of the 43 students. Venezuela 2020 Crime & Safety Report This is an annual report produced in conjunction with the Regional Security Office for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. Huehuetenango Department (except the city of Huehuetenango) due to crime. The law describes femicide as a gender-based murder under any of the following seven circumstances: signs of sexual violence, previous violence, emotional connection to the perpetrator, previous threats, harassment history, victim held incommunicado prior to deprivation of life, or victims body exposure in a public place. This one-hour panel will be a can't miss discussion on lessons-learned stemming from remarkable on-the-ground stories. The presidential cabinet had 19 secretariats, and as of August women headed seven. Responsibility for registration of unions and collective bargaining agreements, including amendments to their statutes, shifted to the Federal Conciliation and Labor Registration Center in November 2020 for the eight phase-one states. An opinion poll in April 2019 showed more than 70 percent of the population supporting the CICIG. Underage children in urban areas earned money by begging, washing windshields, selling small items, or performing in public places. The Puebla state government sued the news outlet E-Consulta seven times due to its reporting. Between January and May there were an additional 20 complaints of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment against the National Guard, 20 against the army, and 11 against the National Migration Institute. As of August 27, there were no updates in this investigation. October 2021. Jewish community representatives reported good cooperation with the government and other religious and civil society organizations in addressing rare instances of such acts. In many parts of the country, human smuggling organizations wielded significant power, and media alleged frequent collusion among local authorities. In addition to criminal libel and defamation laws, civil law defines moral damage as similar to defamation concerning harm to a persons feelings, affections, beliefs, dignity, honor, reputation, and privacy, according to the NGO Committee to Protect Journalists. With a judges consent, children may marry at younger ages. Nongovernmental Impact: Organized criminal groups exercised a grave influence over media outlets and reporters, threatening individuals who published critical views of crime groups. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Lozoya accused high-level politicians representing multiple parties of complicity in his corrupt acts and was acting as a states witness in trials against them. The 27,751 calls to the hotline in May were the most since the creation of the hotline. Cape Town, South Africa. In April authorities arrested and prosecuted Alexis Rafael Valadez Vazquez under the new law for publishing intimate photographs of women online, without their consent, to extort them. On October 7, the army relieved Colonel Miguel Angel Ramirez Canchola, accused of ordering the killings, of his posting, but as of October prosecutors had not taken action against the soldiers. This report details El Salvador's crime and safety reports. Civil society organizations, however, reported that the number of labor inspections was not sufficient to secure compliance. On June 6, authorities arrested former Nayarit governor Roberto Sandoval and his daughter Lidy Alejandra Sandoval Lopez for corruption and money laundering. The CNDH sends a request to the authority asking for evidence of its compliance and includes this follow-up information in its annual report. In April authorities arrested 30 members of the navy and charged them with forced disappearances in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, in 2018. Nationwide the CNB reported the exhumation of the remains of at least 3,025 persons in 1,749 clandestine graves between December 1, 2018, and June 30. Most newspapers, television stations, and radio stations were privately owned. In 2019 the federal government introduced pensions for persons with disabilities in a state of poverty. A variety of domestic and international human rights groups generally operated without government restriction, investigating and publishing their findings on human rights cases. The states where the most political violence occurred were Veracruz, followed by Guerrero and Guanajuato. The OSAC Program Office is headquartered in Washington, DC and is overseen by a 34-member public-private Council. Any work in excess of eight hours in a day is considered overtime, for which a worker is to receive double pay. The Prosecutor Generals Office also obtained an arrest warrant against Lozoyas mother for money laundering, and in 2019 Interpol agents arrested her in Germany. osac crime and safety report: mexico. Spousal rape is criminalized in 26 of the 32 states. Between January and June, state authorities opened 10,458 new rape investigations. On May 1, the role of verifying the process for unions to organize a secret ballot vote for workers to approve or reject existing collective bargaining agreements within the four-year period established by the reforms (legitimization process) transitioned from the STPS to the Federal Center. It may exercise its power to call before the Senate government authorities who refuse to accept or enforce its recommendations. State preventive police report to state governors, while municipal police report to mayors. Despite a government program to transmit public education classes via internet, television, and radio during the pandemic, reports suggested that at least 2.5 million children did not continue their basic education. July 2022. Media monopolies, especially in small markets, at times constrained freedom of expression. Enforcement was inadequate in many small companies, in agriculture, and in construction, and nearly absent in the informal sector in which most child laborers worked. The Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System reported more than 1,889 killings of women, including 672 femicides, from January to September. Reports indicated that women suffered disproportionately from pretrial detention. Federal and state labor inspectorates conducted nearly 30,000 labor inspections in formally registered businesses in 2020 but did not conduct inspections in the informal sector. Reproductive Rights: There were no confirmed reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization on the part of government authorities. Through a nationwide assessment process, the National Search Commission (CNB) revised the governments official number of missing or disappeared persons repeatedly as additional data became available. Efforts focused on implementation of the 2019 labor law reform that transformed the labor justice system. Child protection authorities lacked sufficient capacity to shelter and process migrant children and families, and the government made modest headway to increase that capacity. In addition to a more impartial and streamlined judicial process for labor disputes, the reforms transfer the registration of unions and collective bargaining agreements from the CABs to a new independent Federal Conciliation and Labor Registration Center. In Baja California Sur, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, and Yucatan, the crimes of defamation and libel are prosecuted, with penalties ranging from three days to five years in prison and fines for committing defamation or slander, both considered crimes against honor. Slander is punishable under the criminal laws of the states of Campeche, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Yucatan, and Zacatecas, with sentences ranging from three months to six years in prison and fines. See the Department of States Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/International-Parental-Child-Abduction/for-providers/legal-reports-and-data/reported-cases. Reforms to the Prosecutor Generals Office split the Office for Combating Violence Against Women and the Trafficking in Persons offices in an effort to elevate these issues by giving each its own special prosecutor general. Children also produced garments, leather goods, and illicit crops such as opium poppies; engaged in illicit activities such as the production and trafficking of drugs; and experienced sexual exploitation, often as a result of human trafficking. As of August 16, the suspects remained in detention awaiting trial. From 2013 through . Between January 1 and August 4, it received 4,119 reports of missing persons and located 3,805 alive and 277 deceased. From 1979 to 2020 only eight women had become governors. The law mandates that all discrimination cases, including sexual harassment, bypass formerly mandatory conciliation and proceed directly to the labor courts. Between January and June, state authorities opened 129,020 new domestic violence investigations. The Federal Center also carries out mandatory pre-judicial conciliations at the federal level, with local conciliation centers carrying out the same function at the state level. As of August 25, former governor of Chihuahua Cesar Duarte was awaiting an extradition decision. Some detainees complained of a lack of access to family members and to counsel after police held persons incommunicado for several days and made arrests arbitrarily without a warrant. In May 2020 a constitutional amendment established the disability pension as a constitutional right, prioritizing children, indigenous, and Afro-Mexican persons with disabilities younger than age 64 who lived in poverty. In August 2020 a federal judge sentenced Juan Carlos El Larry Moreno Ochoa to 50 years in prison for killing Breach. In 2019 the Federal Police was disbanded, and in May 2020 all remaining assets and personnel transferred to the National Guard. NGOs reported that acts of excessive use of force and arbitrary detention occurred against female protesters, especially those protesting gender-based violence. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a news release on November 5, 2021 announcing the 14 laboratories in its Crime Laboratory Division have been recognized as implementers of the standards on the OSAC Registry. Journalists in Iguala, Guerrero, received anonymous messages through social networks, such as Facebook and WhatsApp, threatening them and their families, according to civil society. An Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation study on the use of contraceptives in Chiapas (the poorest state) found that older women were less likely to use family planning methods (13 percent of women ages 35 and older, versus 18 percent of women ages 20-34), while 23 percent of indigenous women opposed birth control for religious, cultural, or social reasons. With a constituency of 4,600 U.S. companies and other organizations with . Criminal cases related to such violations were rarely carried out. Online discrimination, harassment, and threats were problems particularly for women journalists and politicians, as well as any individuals and organizations advocating for womens rights. According to the U.N., the murder rate is 4.6 per 100,000 people, which is one of the lowest in the Caribbean and South America. Administration: Authorities did not always conduct investigations into credible allegations of mistreatment. Although the constitution and law provide for an independent judiciary, court decisions were susceptible to improper influence by both private and public entities, particularly at the state and local level, as well as by transnational criminal organizations. Discrimination in employment or occupation occurred against women, indigenous groups, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI+ individuals, and migrant workers. The CABs were widely alleged to administer these elections with a bias against new, independent unions. In May in Chicoloapan, state of Mexico, municipal police beat and detained supporters of feminist groups as they led a protest against gender-based violence and political parties. This requirement was not followed in all cases, particularly in remote areas of the country. In June the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision confirming that the exercise of the right to strike suspends the processing of collective conflicts of an economic nature that may be pending before the court and the topics that they present, unless the workers express in writing their agreement to submit the conflict to the decision of the court. Tweets disseminated their identities and their media outlets and also made veiled threats. It is also a criminal offense in all states. In November 2020 a judge suspended five officials from the Mexico City Prosecutor Generals Office for failing to search for Fatima within 72 hours after she went missing. State commissions do not have uniform reporting requirements, making it difficult to compare state data and therefore compile nationwide statistics. On July 14, 10 indigenous men from the Yaqui tribe living in Sonora disappeared while transporting cattle in Bacum. According to data from the Mexican Social Security Institute, in 2020 there were approximately 278,000 workplace accidents, resulting in 666 deaths. Some civil society groups, however, asserted that state commissions were subservient to the state executive branch. The government, in conjunction with international organizations, made efforts to promote the safe, voluntary return, resettlement, or local integration of IDPs. Most of these complaints were against authorities in the Prosecutor Generals Office, National Guard, Interior Secretariat, and the armed forces. December 18, 2021. This book is required to read as an instruction manual for the dem The states with the most teenage pregnancies were Chiapas, Coahuila, and Guerrero, and Tabasco. This decision prevented a protection union from attempting to stop the strike by filing a challenge to the Mineros Unions control of the existing collective bargaining agreement at the San Martin mine in Sombrerete, Zacatecas. According to the measurement, which offers a balance for 2020, the capital of Potos has a rate of 37,400 victims per 100,000 inhabitants, only below Toluca, capital of the State of Mexico, with 38,300. The governments National Protection Mechanism to Protect Journalists and Human Rights Defenders provided panic buttons, bodyguards, and temporary relocation to journalists and human rights defenders. The government continued its efforts to strengthen freedom of association protections, promote union democracy, and improve the ability of workers to bargain collectively. The law provides criminal penalties for corruption by officials, and the government took steps to increase its legal authority to pursue these crimes. The government did not effectively enforce the law or regulations. Civil society groups claimed police routinely subjected LGBTQI+ persons to mistreatment while in custody. These written documents define minimum requirements, best practices, standard protocols and other guidance to help ensure that the results of forensic analysis are valid, reliable and reproducible. The government continued implementing the labor reforms in a phased manner, with the reform coming online in eight states in November 2020, and phase two started on November 3 with 13 states, and phase three to be concluded on May 1, 2022, for the remaining states. In August 2020 attackers fired multiple shots at the building housing the printing facilities of El Diario de Iguala. With no access to schools or child care, many workers took their children to work in the fields. 08/25/20 (written by aahrensvquez)-Justice in Mexico released its latest working paper "Organized Crime and Violence in Guanajuato" by Laura Y. Caldern on Thursday. Country Summary: Violent crime - such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery - is widespread and common in Mexico. The constitution allows any person to arrest another if the crime is committed in his or her presence. Security forces responded by killing four suspects and arresting 25. Censorship or Content Restrictions: Human rights groups reported that some state and local governments censored media. Government authorities also reported an increase of 73 percent in online child pornography distribution during the pandemic. OSAC Registry. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to work in foreign-owned factories, mainly in northern border states, producing electronics, medical equipment, and auto parts. Federal law provides for freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation, and the government generally respected these rights. Mexico Amman, Jordan Amsterdam, Nederlands St; Temples; . As of December 2020 the Prosecutor Generals Office was investigating 3,703 torture-related inquiries under the previous inquisitorial legal system (initiated prior to the 2016 transition to an accusatorial system) and 565 investigations under the accusatorial system. The previous platform lacked interconnectivity between states and failed to connect family members effectively to the remains of their missing relatives. The law provides for the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, and the government generally respected these rights, with some exceptions. Citizens have access to an independent judiciary in civil matters to seek civil remedies for human rights abuses. As of July, 39 percent of active unions under local jurisdiction had registered required amendments to their amended statutes to incorporate new secret ballot and gender equity requirements with the CABs. The INE requested information from all 32 states, reviewed a sample of 1,177 of the 6,962 federal deputy candidates, and canceled the registration of three candidates for filing false reports. 4 The authorities failed to properly safeguard the evidence collected, examine all lines of investigation and correctly apply a gender perspective. Also see the Department of Labors Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/findings/ as well as the Department of Labors List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods. According to the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, most criminal suspects did not receive representation until after their first custody hearing, thus making individuals vulnerable to coercion to sign false statements prior to appearing before a judge. Here then is a recap of key crime and anti-crime events and developments in Mexico in 2020, and of the bleak prospects for 2021. Barriers to accessing contraceptives stemmed from lack of knowledge, poverty, lack of access to health services, and sexual violence from family members, strangers, or friends. Standards moving through the development process at standards developing organizations (SDOs). On March 11, an anticorruption and antinepotism constitutional reform granted the Federal Judiciary Council the administrative organ of the federal court system more oversight over district and appeals courts and limited hiring authorities of individual judges. Most National Guard personnel are seconded from the army and navy and have the option to return to their services after five years. Federal authorities supported access to contraceptive methods, but states efforts varied widely. On August 7, Yucatan governor Mauricio Villa announced the arrest of four police officers, but on August 14, a judge set them free due to a lack of evidence. In June authorities sentenced Quintana Roo police officer Miguel Mora Olvera to five years in prison for his role in torturing Cacho. International Child Abductions: The country is party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Authorities accused the suspects of smuggling 20 to 80 migrants per day through Baja California into the United States for more than a decade. Arbitrary Arrest: Allegations of arbitrary detentions persisted throughout the year. The procedure known in Spanish as arraigo (a constitutionally permitted form of pretrial detention employed during the investigative phase of a criminal case before probable cause is fully established) allows, with a judges approval, for certain suspects to be detained prior to filing formal charges. He was a member of a search collective and the state search commission. The Catholic Multimedia Center reported that criminal groups harassed priests and other religious leaders in some parts of the country and subjected them to extortion, death threats, and intimidation. Many companies evaded taxes and social security payments by employing workers through subcontracting regimes or by submitting falsified payroll records to the Mexican Social Security Institute. The law allows for the reinstatement of workers if the CAB finds the employer fired the worker without just cause and the worker requests reinstatement; however, the law also exempts broad categories of employees from this protection, including so-called employees of confidence and workers in the job for less than one year. The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) was created in 1985 under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to promote security cooperation between American private-sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State. Some companies reportedly did not implement effective protective measures for employees, and one factory, owned by Eaton Corporation in Baja California, was operating illegally and was closed after it placed chains on its doors to prevent 800 workers from leaving. The report singled out Hidalgo, Nayarit, Puebla, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Tamaulipas as the states with the worst prison conditions. The most common reason to remove content was defamation, followed by privacy and security. osac crime and safety report honduras. osac mexico 2021 crime and safety report. . The law provides for eight paid public holidays and one week of paid annual leave after completing one year of work. High levels of impunity, including for killings or attacks on journalists, resulted in self-censorship and reduced freedom of expression and the press. In July unknown assailants abducted and killed Aranza Ramos in the state of Sonora. Zeron led the investigation of the case by the former criminal investigations unit in the Attorney Generals Office at the time of the students disappearances. State labor inspectors, however, reported finding evidence of child labor, particularly in agricultural establishments. There were 46 female candidates for governor; from 2012 to 2018, there cumulatively only 42. Authorities declared 10 political parties eligible to participate in the midterm elections. Zone 18 and the city of Villa Nueva in Guatemala City due to crime. Authorities held some detainees under house arrest. Authorities arrested four police officers and charged them with femicide (killing a woman because of her gender). The most common aggressions were intimidation and harassment, followed by threats and physical attacks, according to civil society groups. They were vulnerable to abuse from staff members, other patients, or guests at facilities where there was inadequate supervision. Flores received temporary protection from the Interior Secretariat protection mechanism. Organized criminal groups dominated migrant smuggling operations and often kidnapped, threatened, and extorted migrants to pay a fee for facilitating northbound travel. lion fight muay thai salary. Approximately 23 percent of informal workers (6.8 million persons) were employed by formal businesses or organizations but paid in cash off the books to evade taxes and social security payments. Government officials were mostly cooperative and responsive, with the president and cabinet officials meeting with human rights organizations, such as OHCHR, IACHR, and CNDH. 2021 105W 100W 95W 90W 85W 80W 75W 70W 65W 60W 55W 50W 45W 40W 35W 30W N N !\ . As of August 18, authorities had not confirmed whether the threatening video was genuine. Country Summary: Violent crime such as extortion, murder, armed robbery, carjacking . Sometimes family members arranged marriages for girls younger than 18. The new wage applied to all sectors and allowed an earner to reach or exceed the poverty line. The government investigated and prosecuted some of these crimes, but the vast majority remained uninvestigated and unprosecuted. This Standards Bulletin from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science provides a monthly update on: Standards moving through the OSAC Registry approval processes for published and OSAC Proposed Standards. This was in a street in Coyoacan, which . The group reported 16 acts of aggression against female journalists between January and July and called on the Puebla governor to guarantee the adoption of public policies to respect, protect, and guarantee the exercise of journalism. The constitution prohibits discrimination based on ethnicity, and a federal law prohibits all forms of discrimination. We do know that Cuba has relatively few guns, and violent crime is fairly uncommon. In July the army provided reparations to two of the three families of persons killed in July 2020 by soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, during an encounter with suspected cartel members. Read the entire Travel Advisory. While on average informal workers earned less than the minimum wage, in some areas, such as near the northern border, informal employment could pay more than formal employment in the manufacturing sector. The pension was 2,550 pesos ($125) every two months. Freedom Houses 2021 Freedom on the Net report categorized the countrys internet as partly free, noting concerns regarding online manipulation tactics, potential for politicized content removals, high levels of violence against digital reporters, and investigations surrounding abusive surveillance practices. Do not travel to the Colombian border area in the Loreto Region because of crime, or the area in central Peru known as the Valley of the Rivers Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro (VRAEM) because of crime and terrorism. Authorities sometimes failed to respect court orders, and arrest warrants were sometimes ignored. Between January and April the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes in the Attorney Generals Office initiated 14 investigations related to gender-based political violence against women. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and family members of disappeared persons alleged the prosecutors undercounted the actual number of cases. The pandemic severely impacted the economy, resulting in a significant increase in the number of children engaging in child labor. Women, children, indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI+ persons, and migrants (including men, women, and children) were the most vulnerable to forced labor (see section 7.c.). Around 191,000 people were internally displaced between 2004 and 2018, the Honduran government reported, and more than 75,000 Hondurans sought asylum abroad in 2017. Conditions in prisons and detention centers were often harsh and life threatening. Documentation supporting a persons identity and origin was lacking. Contents1 Where does Cuba rank in [] Of all children, 7.1 percent, or two million, were younger than the minimum age of work or worked under conditions that violated federal labor law, such as performing hazardous work. On June 17, while journalist Gustavo Sanchez Cabrera was riding his motorcycle, two unidentified individuals in a car crashed into him, exited the car, and fatally shot him. Respect for the Integrity of the Person, a. Some prisons were undersubscribed, while others were overcrowded. By law a union may call for a strike or bargain collectively in accordance with its own statutes. Between January and August, the CNDH registered 26 complaints of torture and 123 for arbitrary detention. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor, c. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment, d. Discrimination with Respect to Employment and Occupation. In March authorities in Mexico City opened an investigation based on allegations of rape against Andres Roemer, a prominent writer, producer, consular officer, and former UNESCO goodwill ambassador. See the Department of States Trafficking in Persons Report at https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/. In May 2020 the CNDH reported that children were subjected to abuses such as torture, sexual violence, and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment at Ciudad de los Ninos, a private institution in Salamanca, Guanajuato. There were some complaints of illegal searches or illegal destruction of private property. Be mindful of Cuban laws and regulations during your stay. Index; Crime Index: 68.49: Safety Index: 31.51: Crime rates in Mexico City, Mexico. The National Population Council reported that in 2020 there were 373,661 pregnancies in women younger than age 19 (30 percent above 2019), of which 8,876 were in girls ages 14 or younger. In the June midterm elections, citizens voted for all members of the Chamber of Deputies, 15 governors, state legislators, and mayors across the country. Federal law prohibits discrimination against LGBTQI+ individuals. The law establishes a requirement to observe parity in the designation of public officials at every level (federal, state, local) in all three branches of government. Freedom of expression advocacy groups reported the government, despite reductions in its advertising budgets, continued to have a strong financial impact and influence on the largest media companies. Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government, Section 5. Workers had to buy food and other items at the company store at high markups, at times leaving them with no money at the end of the harvest after settling debts. The National Migration Institute, under the authority of the Interior Secretariat, is responsible for enforcing migration law. The NGO Disability Rights International reported various instances of abuse, including the use of prolonged restraints and isolation rooms for children with disabilities in both public and private institutions. According to INEGIs 2016 National Survey on the Dynamics of Household Relationships, 22 percent of working women reported experiencing labor discrimination within the previous 12 months. Journalists who asked difficult questions of government officials during press engagements received attacks via Twitter. The midterms marked a large increase in female candidates. For example, manufacturers commonly hired workers on one- to three-month contracts and then waited a period of days before rehiring them on new short-term contracts to avoid paying severance and to prevent workers from accruing seniority. A Mexico City municipal law provides increased penalties for hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity. For example, journalists in Nogales, Sonora, said they were aware of unspoken red lines in covering organized crime and that crossing lines, such as mentioning the name of an alleged assailant, could result in personal harm. In-country Movement: There were numerous instances of armed groups limiting the movements of migrants, including by threats and acts of kidnapping, extortion, and homicide. The law prohibits compulsory overtime. The CNDH noted significant understaffing at all levels in federal prisons, which affected access to programs, activities, medical services, and opportunities to report possible human rights abuses. NGOs alleged that provisions in laws threatened the privacy of internet users by forcing telecommunication companies to retain data for two years, providing real-time geolocation data to police, and allowing authorities to obtain metadata from private communications companies without a court order. Municipal police arrested eight women and one man, later releasing all detainees. U.S. Department of State - United States Department of State On August 3, Ravelo died from his injuries. The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is responsible for independently investigating security force abuses, including killings, and can issue nonbinding recommendations for prosecution. The threat against journalists by organized crime was particularly high in the state of Guerrero. Between January and July COMAR processed approximately 25,000 cases. Google received more removal requests from government agents in 2020 than in any other year except 2014. As mentioned in the Justice in Mexico 2020 Organized Crime and Violence Special Report, Guanajuato is one of the major hot spots of violence in Mexico. Various news outlets showed a video of two National Migration Institute agents with riot gear and shields grabbing one migrant, knocking him to the ground, and kicking him. In June the government amended the General Law on Womens Access to a Life Free of Violence to include media and digital violence as a form of violence against women. On February 19, a constitutional reform eliminated presidential immunity for corruption and other crimes. Indigenous defendants who did not speak Spanish sometimes were unaware of the status of their cases and were convicted without fully understanding the documents they were instructed to sign. This Standards Bulletin from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science provides a monthly update on: Standards moving through the OSAC Registry approval processes for published and OSAC Proposed Standards. In July an arrangement was reached on a course of remediation, which included a new collective bargaining agreement legitimization vote under the supervision of the STPS, with observers from the National Electoral Institute and the International Labor Organization. Emergency contraception was available, including for survivors of sexual assault. Federal law prohibits torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as the admission of confessions obtained through illicit means as evidence in court. In July the secretary of the navy publicly apologized to families of the victims, marking the first time the armed forces apologized for committing forced disappearances. Abuses of time limits on pretrial detention were endemic in state judicial systems. President Lopez Obrador condemned the threats, and the Interior Secretariat confirmed that authorities would grant Uresti protection measures. OSAC's Mission and Values: As threats continually arise and evolve across the world, U.S. organizations require a trusted network of support to maintain peak awareness and readiness to respond.OSAC is dedicated to maintaining strong bonds between public and private security professionals to provide these organizations with the broadest security perspective and widest scope of support. Labor inspections focused on the formal sector, leaving informal workers with no labor law protection. Children constituted 19 percent of irregular migrant flows identified by authorities; 30 percent of them were unaccompanied. The law provides for freedom of expression, including for members of the press and other media, and the government generally respected this right. This limited medias ability to investigate and report, since many of the reporters who were killed covered crime, corruption, and local politics. The reforms prevent the registration of collective bargaining agreements known as protection contracts, which nonrepresentative unions often negotiated and signed without the knowledge of workers and undermined genuine collective bargaining. In 2019, OSAC gave Mexico a level 2 rating ,. Lopez had filed a complaint with the Interior Secretariat asking for greater government intervention in the indigenous Tsotsil regions following increased drug trafficking-related violence. The Director of the Diplomatic Security Service is one of the co-chairs of OSAC, and a DS Special Agent serves as OSAC's Executive Director. Forced labor persisted in the domestic service and in child-care, manufacturing, mining, food-processing, construction, tourism, begging, street-vending, leather-goods-production, and agriculture sectors, especially in the production of chili peppers and tomatoes. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Section 1. As of October the accused were in a military prison awaiting trial. The federal government and states continued to implement the law on forced disappearances. There were several reports that government entities or their agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, often with impunity. Some cases dated back to the 1960s, but the vast majority occurred since 2006. Due to low internet penetration and television ownership in indigenous communities, distance learning was often inaccessible. Local commentators pointed to the electoral authorities quick and transparent publishing of results as increasing citizen trust in the electoral and democratic system. INEGI reported in 2017 that 23 percent of working women experienced violence in the workplace within the past 12 months and that 6 percent experienced sexual violence. The CABs operate under a tripartite system with government, worker, and employer representatives, with worker representation on the CABs selected based on majority representation, which was held by entrenched nondemocratic unions that sign protection contracts with complicit employers to secure low wages. Most internal affairs units, however, were insufficiently staffed and funded. Abuses of persons with disabilities included the use of physical and chemical restraints; physical and sexual abuse; human trafficking, including forced labor; disappearance; and the illegal adoption of institutionalized children. Penalties for law violations regarding hours and minimum wage were commensurate with those for other similar laws but were rarely enforced. In April the STPS suspended a legitimization vote at the General Motors plant in Silao, Guanajuato, due to serious irregularities during the vote. As of August, 25 of 32 states had specialized prosecutors offices for investigating torture, or specialized investigative units within the state attorney generals office as called for by law. The law states that the principle of gender parity should be observed in the designation of cabinet members, selection of candidates for public office by every political party, and designation of members of the judiciary. In just the first few months of 2019, the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz has been plagued by bloodshed - on the streets, in drive-by shootings, and even with a massacre at a family gathering . In June President Lopez Obrador announced that forensic scientists at the University of Innsbruck conclusively identified the remains of Jhosivani Guerrero, marking the third body identified of the 43 disappeared students. As of September no alleged perpetrators of the disappearances had been convicted, and 78 of those initially accused were released due to lack of evidence, generally due to irregularities in their detention, including confessions obtained through torture. Federal law criminalizes spousal abuse. On February 6, the federal Law Against Digital Harassment took effect. Day laborers and their children were the primary victims of forced and child labor in the agricultural sector, particularly in the production of chili peppers and tomatoes. Pretrial Detention: Lengthy pretrial detention was a problem, and authorities did not always promptly release those detained unlawfully. OSAC has developed into an enormously successful joint venture, with U.S. companies and organizations receiving the tools they need to cope with security issues in a . Between January and June, the commission registered that 115,534 women received attention in Justice Centers for Women throughout the country, a 19 percent increase over the same period in 2020. osac crime and safety report: mexico. According to several NGOs and unions, many workers faced violence and intimidation perpetrated by protection union leaders and employers supporting them, as well as other workers, union leaders, and vigilantes hired by a company to suppress opposition to an existing union in bargaining-rights elections. That means the homicide crime rate was 29 per 100,000 in 2020. In July 2020 he was arrested in another country pursuant to a Mexican extradition request on charges that he diverted millions of dollars in public funds. The government increased efforts to target human smuggling organizations. requires a written warrant of arrest except in cases where an individual is caught in the act of committing a crime. The law also provides for the rights of appeal and of bail in most categories of crimes. For example, the office issued three arrest warrants in the case of the August 2020 killing of Juan Nelcio Espinosa, an independent journalist in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, who died while in police custody. In May voting in prisons occurred for the first time in the countrys modern history after the Federal Electoral Tribunal ruled prisoners in pretrial detention had the right to vote. In most states alternative justice centers employed mechanisms such as mediation, negotiation, and restorative justice to resolve minor offenses outside the court system. The CNDH reported that assailants killed 12 human rights defenders from January to July. On May 18, an exhibit in Mexico City on Israeli innovation was vandalized with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel messages. Most formal-sector workers (70 percent) received between one and three times the minimum wage. The CNDHs 2020 National Diagnostic of Penitentiary Supervision reported that state prisons were understaffed and suffered from poor sanitary conditions as well as a lack of separation between those sentenced and those awaiting trial. Mexico is safer than many cities in the U.S. More than 150,000 Americans safely visit Mexico every day. In response to a 2020 civil society organization lawsuit, a Mexico City court ruled authorities must implement COVID-19 detection and preventive health protocols for detainees and their families in prisons in Mexico City and psychiatric wards nationwide. The third and fourth stages will be complete in 2021, extending the tramline to the Luxembourg Airport, the Luxembourg train station, and the neighborhood of Cloche d'Or. In 2016 all civilian and military courts officially transitioned from an inquisitorial legal system based primarily upon judicial review of written documents to an accusatorial trial system reliant upon oral testimony presented in open court. The CNDH may take on cases from state-level commissions if it receives a complaint that the state commission has not adequately investigated the case. Freedom of Expression for Members of the Press and Media, Including Online Media: Independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction but often self-censored due to fear of reprisal. NGOs stated authorities failed to investigate torture allegations adequately. Only 7.5 percent of the members of the executive boards of publicly traded domestic companies were female, and men held 64 percent of managerial positions throughout the country.

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