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Duuren, Matthijs van (2018)

Effectiveness of International Law in Mexico's Enforced Disappearance Crisis

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

On March 15 this year, The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearance (UNCED) has released a hammering report entitled "Double Injustice - Human Rights Violation in the Investigation of the Ayotzinapa Case" into the forced disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014 (OHCHR, 2018). This case, which has also become known under the "Iguala Case", named after the city in Mexico where the horrendous incident happened, has received unprecedented heights of attention, both by the national and international press. During the night of 26th to 27 September 2014, over 80 students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa travelled by bus (which they had seized) to participate in an annual demonstration in Mexico City.

Mexico

Ayotzinapa

International Law

Enforced Disappearance Crisis

Author

Duuren, Matthijs van

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Global Conflict in the Modern Era

Supervisors

Sheppard, R.C.
Rodríguez Idarraga, N.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en