John Traversi visit to Mexico to investigate human rights abuses

John Traversi returns from a visit to Mexico where he formed part of a Bar Human Rights Committee delegation, investigating reported abuses of human rights in that country. The purpose of the visit was to update a report (Recalling the Rule of Law 2010, see www.barhumanrights.org.uk) launched last year in the House of Lords. He spent time in Mexico City interviewing Federal ministers, prosecutors and the executive secretary of the National Commission for Human Rights, and travelled to the state of Guerrero where he met state officials and members of the local human rights community. In the state’s capital, Chilpancingo, he launched the Spanish version of the report. On his return to the capital, he attended a meeting with HM Ambassador and representatives of the Irish, Canadian and Italian embassies and later heard from a group of victims of human rights abuses.