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» Grantee Profile: INSyDE Mexico faces serious challenges to consolidating the rule of law and respect for human rights. In an effort to stem the illegal drug trade, the federal government has deployed the military in cities and communities across the country. Overall, this militarized response has failed to reduce violence and instead has led to increased reports of human rights abuses committed by members of the military. Human rights observers also worry that the government is using the security emergency to justify backsliding on human rights protections. Mexican rights groups are witnessing a crackdown on peaceful protest and the harassment of organizations and social movements that oppose government policies. State and local governments are taking advantage of the crisis to silence their political opponents and human rights advocates alike.
As national attention is focused on the deteriorating security situation, calls to address structural problems such as poverty and inequality through the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights are dismissed by government officials. In this context, the Fund seeks to strengthen efforts to defend human rights protections in the area of justice and public security while also continuing to advance emerging issues such as environmental rights and sexual and reproductive rights. The Fund’s Mexico strategy seeks to support both well-established and emerging organizations to address critical human rights issues.
The Fund’s grant-making is largely focused in states that suffer high rates of human rights abuse and receive insufficient attention from national and international human rights organizations and funders: Guerrero, Chiapas and Oaxaca in the South; Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Sinaloa in the North; and Puebla and Jalisco in the central region of the country. Focusing on a handful of states also has enabled the Fund to better understand complex situations and to increase the impact of our grant-making by supporting several organizations working together to advance the same issue.
The Fund aims to provide sustainable support for human rights organizations. To that end, we maintain a long-term focus on specific countries and regions where we believe strategic grant-making can make a difference in advancing human rights protections over time. The Fund has had a grants program in Mexico since 2003. |
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