This weekend Mexico will elect 20,286 representatives, including a new president, 128 new senators, 500 federal deputies, governors, municipal presidents and members of state legislatures.
Although several challenges have been addressed during the electoral campaigns, one topic that has hardly been talked about is human rights, despite the continued calls by civil society organisations for this to change.
In 2022, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) recorded 156,743 human rights violations. The most frequently occurring types of violations were arbitrary detention, acts of discrimination carried out by public officials, and the denial or inadequate provision of public services like water and electricity.
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