Human Rights: Activists Tell U.N. High Commissioner They're in Danger

MEXICO-RIGHTS: Activists Tell U.N. High Commissioner They're in Danger - IPS ipsnews.net: "Reports of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, kidnappings and assaults are some of the heavy baggage that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is taking home from Mexico.

Pillay, who ended an official visit here Friday, met over the past week with human rights defenders and senior government officials, including conservative President Felipe Calderón, to gather information on the human rights situation in this Latin American country.

'We have no guarantees for carrying out our work,' Gabriela Morales, a lawyer with the Centre for Migrant Human Rights (CDHM), told IPS. 'The issue of human rights defenders has to be put on the table.' ...

"A large number of attacks committed by agents of the state have not been investigated, because there is complete impunity," Juan Gutiérrez, director of the non-governmental Mexican Commission for the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH), told IPS. The activist met this week with Pillay, a South African judge who was appointed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in July 2008."