Chapter 3. Women’s Human Rights in the Armed Conflict in Mexico: Organized Crime, Collective Action, and State Responses

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ABBREVIATIONS ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. THE CRISIS UNFOLDS
6. Chapter 1. Deadly Forces: Use of Lethal Force by Mexican Security Forces 2007–2015 23
7. Chapter 2. Violence-Induced Internal Displacement in Mexico, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and Official State Responses 43
8. Chapter 3. Women’s Human Rights in the Armed Conflict in Mexico: Organized Crime, Collective Action, and State Responses 63
9. Chapter 4. The Invisible Violence Against Women in Mexico 86
10. PART II. THE CRISIS FOR MIGRANTS
11. Chapter 5. Superfluous Lives: Undocumented Migrants Traveling in Mexico 107
12. Chapter 6. Emigration, Violence, and Human Rights Violations in Central Mexico 124
13. Chapter 7. Bridging Legal Geographies: Contextual Adjudication in Mexican Asylum Claims 147
14. Chapter 8. Mexican Asylum Seekers and the Convention Against Torture 167
15. PART III. THE INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
16. Chapter 9. Democracia a la Mexicana: A Framework Conducive to Human Rights Violations 187
17. Chapter 10. Factors Blocking the Compliance with International Human Rights Norms in Mexico 207
18. Chapter 11. Human Rights and Justice in Mexico: An Analysis of Judicial Functions 227
19. Chapter 12. The Judicial Breakthrough Model: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Lethal Violence 250
20. Notes 273
21. Bibliography 285
22. List of Contributors 315
23. Index 319
24. Acknowledgments 327