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DEFENDERS
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Ratify the International Convention for
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearances and the Convention on Rights
of Persons with Disabilities in order to further
strengthen their support to the United Nations
Human Rights mechanisms.
Ratify the following conventions and protocols:
the Statute of the International Criminal Court,
those of the ILO, the United Nations Declaration
on Indigenous Peoples, and all those from the
Inter-American Human Rights System.
Proceed with the ratification of Additional
Protocols I and II of the Geneva Conventions of
1949.
Review, reform and adequate its federal
and state laws, in consultation with civil
society, to comply with the protection of the
right to nondiscrimination established by the
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Racial Discrimination, especially in the areas
of employment, housing, health, education and
justice
Labor, migrants
Make further efforts in order to eliminate
all forms of discrimination and the abuse of
authority by police officers against migrants and
foreigners
Ensure that migrants in detention, subject to
a process of expulsion are entitled to counsel, a
fair trial and fully understand their rights, even in
their own language
Guarantee the access of migrants to basic
services, regardless of their migratory status
Avoid the criminalization of migrants and
ensure the end of police brutality, through human
rights training and awareness-raising campaigns,
especially to eliminate stereotypes and guarantee
that the incidents of excessive use of force be
investigated and the perpetrators prosecuted
Consider ratifying ILO Convention 100 on
equal remuneration for men and women for
work of equal value, and ILO Convention 111 on
discrimination in employment and occupation
Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of Their Families
Creation of suitable basis for the enjoyment
of the right to employment and fair working
conditions, to a point where workers women,
minorities and migrants who have no education
certificates do not become victims to prejudice
or exploitation.
Recognize the right to association as established
by ILO, for agricultural workers and, domestic
workers and migrant.
- Reconsider restrictions on undocumented
migrants’ access to publicly supported
healthcare.
- Make greater efforts to guarantee the access
of migrants to basic services, regardless of their
migratory status.
Detention Condition
- Creation of a legislative and executive basis
to combat racial prejudice and preparation of the
basis for equal enjoyment of the right to housing,
employment and education.
- Prevent and repress the illegitimate use of
violence against detainees.
- Take measures with a view to prohibiting and
punishing the brutality and the use of excessive
or deadly force by the law enforcement officials
and to banning torture and other ill-treatment in
Withdraw reservations,
denunciations, and
interpretations of the Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights,
the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination and the
Convention against Torture, which
undermine their compliance.