Washington D.C., October 25th, 2023 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights notifies the Government of Mexico of the initiation of proceedings for the admission of a case for possible human rights violations by denying the participation of victims of corruption in a grand corruption criminal proceeding. Washington D.C., October 25,

TOJIL filed a criminal complaint before the General Prosecutor’s Office for the possible commission of corruption-related crimes committed by officials of the Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL) and the Secretariat for Agrarian, Land and Urban Development (SEDATU), discovered through the journalistic investigation commonly known as the Master Swindle. As

In 2019, TOJIL achieved an emblematic precedent in which a federal constitutional judge recognized the organization as a victim of corruption-related crime within a criminal proceeding related to the former governor of the state of Veracruz Javier Duarte. In summary, this ruling determined that civil society organizations can represent

The Mexican Constitution, as well as that of many other countries, establishes that criminal hearings must be conducted publicly. However, despite being an explicit principle in the Constitution, the authorities insist on limiting its extent and scope. Therefore, TOJIL has undertaken the following actions to guarantee the exercise of

In 2021, TOJIL succeeded in having a Justice of a Collegiate Federal Court in Criminal Matters recognize our organization as a victim of corruption within a criminal proceeding against the Head of the National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (CONADE) and other public servants. In February 2020, the

In 2018, derived from a citizen complaint, the organization Los Supercívicos documented that the pharmaceutical chain Farmacias del Ahorro had a systematic practice at the national level that consisted of felling trees with the aim of building parking spaces at the entrance of its branches, it was recorded that

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Chihuahua has had full constitutional autonomy since 2020. Since then, the local constitution and legislation prohibit the person in charge of this institution (interim or permanent) from being appointed directly by the Executive Branch. However, in June 2022, Governor María Eugenia

After the extradition of Emilio Lozoya (former director of PEMEX) due to accusations related to the Odebrecht case, Mexican authorities used one of the most convulsive moments derived from the COVID-19 pandemic to handle this case irregularly, in opacity and far from public scrutiny. Given this scenario, TOJIL requested