Silvia Colmenero Morales
HRD, Member
Defensoría y Estrategias Integrales para los Derechos Humanos y Territoriales – DESIDE
Silvia Colmenero Morales is a member of Defensoría y Estrategias Integrales para los Derechos Humanos y Territoriales – DESIDE, a Veracruz-based grassroots organisation which works on human rights violations. They assist communities facing illegal development projects on their lands, denouncing and publicising excessive use of force by state security forces.
Silvia Colmenero MoralesCases
Human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in Mexico are subject to intimidation, legal harassment, arbitrary detention, death threats, acts of physical aggression, enforced disappearances and killings as a result of their activities in defence of human rights and the exercise of freedom of expression and journalism.
