Two LLM students prepare report on violence against journalists in Mexico for IHRP and PEN Canada

REVISED June 10, 2011.

(June 3, 2011) In a report, Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists, the Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and PEN Canada expose the Mexican government’s repeated failure to protect the human rights of journalists, its complicity in a number of rights violations against them, and the web of Mexican laws that limit freedom of expression and effectively gag journalists who seek to expose government corruption.

The report is authored by two LLM students at the Faculty of Law, Cara Gibbons and Beth Spratt, and is based, in part, on interviews with Mexican human rights defenders and journalists conducted during a fact-finding trip in November 2010.

• Read the press release on the IHRP website
• Read the executive summary (PDF)
• Read the full report (PDF)

Co-author Beth Spratt was interviewed about this report, in Spanish, on Radio-Canada International. Listen to the interview on the RCI website.