22/01/2010 – Ahead of the upcoming EU-Mexico Summit in May, Amnesty International wants to highlight the dire situation faced by human rights defenders in Mexico, which is one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas for human rights defenders. The report ‘Standing up for Justice and Dignity – Human Rights Defenders in Mexico’ identifies a sustained pattern of killings, threats, intimidation, harassment and arbitrary detention of Human Rights Defenders being committed by state and non-state actors in Mexico. This became painfully true when Josefina Reyes, another human rights defender, was killed on 3 January.