Mariclaire Acosta

Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi (b. Mexico) is a Mexican academic, activist, former public servant, internationally recognized specialist in issues related to the defense and promotion of human rights. She is president of the Committee of Citizen Participation.

Trajectory

Studies

He studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and specialized in Latin American politics and government at the University of Essex.

Professional career

He directed the Mexico office of Freedom House, a US organization dedicated to promoting democracy and defending human rights. She was an associate researcher at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), where she developed a research project on the place of impunity in the Mexican democratic system, the ways in which it has been normalized and institutionalized, as well as on the social perception of the issue. The purpose of this research was to establish a path of conceptual analysis and promote the critical appropriation of the topic by organized civil society. Its results have been published by the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District under the title Chronic impunity in Mexico: an approach from human rights.

She was Special Ambassador for Human Rights and Democracy (2000) and Undersecretary for Human Rights and Democracy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) of Mexico (2001-2003). She was director of the Department of Democratic Governance and special adviser to the Secretary General at the Organization of American States (OAS), until March 2008. Subsequently, she was director for the Americas of the International Center for Transitional Justice, ICTJ).

For ten years he presided over the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, A.C. (1990-2000). She was also founder and director of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights (1984-1989). Both organizations were pioneers in the Mexican movement for Human Rights and have made important contributions to this cause. She was the first representative of the Mexico Section of Amnesty International, from 1977 to 1984.

He has taught at El Colegio de México, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and American University, among other academic institutions. In 2010, she was the holder of the UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy, at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, where she gave the keynote address The Uncertain Defeat of Authoritarianism, Lawlessness and Human Rights in Mexico.

Participating in various international human rights missions, she was also Coordinator of Advisors for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) during the peace talks in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas.

Posts

He has published opinion articles in various media such as Le Monde, La Jornada, Reforma, El Universal and Voices of Mexico. He also participated in the 72migrantes.com project about the Rancho San Fernando massacre in Tamaulipas, Mexico (2010).

Books

• 2016. - Luis Raúl González Pérez. In defence of journalists and human rights defenders at risk. Mexico: Tirant lo Blanc.
• 2015. The current state of protection to freedom of expression in Mexico anthology of legal texts. Mexico, D.F. National Human Rights Commission, Freedom House.
• 2012. Mexico's chronic impunity: an approach to human rights. 2012. Mexico: CDHDF.
• 2011. -Guadalupe Barrena Nájera.uperar la impunidad hacia una estrategia para asegurar el acceso a la justicia en México: reporte de investigación. [Mexico, D.F.] CIDE [2011]
• 2011.-Sergio Aguayo Quezada, Julio Mata Montiel, Santiago Corcuera, Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, and Rafael Grasa. Transitional justice in Mexico in the light of Latin American experiences. Is a Truth Commission viable and desirable? Mexico City: The College of Mexico.
• 2006. - John Burstein. 2006. What can be within a name?: case studies on identity and registration in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.

• 2005. The women of Ciudad Juárez. Berkeley, CA: Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
• 2002. A thousand and a nuance of human rights. Nuevo León, Mexico: State Commission on Human Rights.
• 2012.- Guadalupe Barrena. Mexico's chronic impunity: an approach to human rights. Mexico: Human Rights Commission of the Federal District.
• 1998. "Violence: one more way to discriminate against women." Liberal Profiles (Mexico). 12 (57): 70-72.-Rocío Culebro.
• 1996. Report on the situation of human rights in Mexico during the administration of Ernesto Zedillo: (1 December 1994-31 January 1996). Mexico, D.F.: Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, A.C.
• 1995. The faces of racism. [Mexico, D.F.]: Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights.
• 1992. Human rights in Mexico. Mexico: Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, A.C.
• 1981. -Roberto Arizmendi Rodríguez, and Jorge Bartolucci Incico. 1981. Profile of the first-come student to the College of Sciences and Humanities. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Dirección General de Publicaciones.
• 1976. Abortion in Mexico. Mexico: Fund for Economic Culture.
• 1976. Programme for the introduction of social sciences: Semestres I and II. Mexico: National Association of Universities and Institutes of Higher Education

Magazine Articles

• 2001. "Comments on social actors." Meetings) In Reproductive Health: Public Policies, Norms and Social Actors. 233-236.
• 2001. "The role and agenda of civil society organized in the process of establishing the International Criminal Court." International Criminal Justice. 235-238.
• 2008. "The stereotypes of Mexican women in photonovels." Revista Diálogos: Antología. pp. 179-184.
• 1994. "Under the volcano: Human rights, official torture, and the...The HumanistWashington, D.C.. v. 54, no. 6, (Nov
• 1976. "Collective communication and political socialization: comparative study of the countryside and the city". UNAM FCPyS.

Book chapters

• 2004. "Arbitrary detention," in Álvarez Ledesma, Mario. Human rights and victims of crime. Mexico: National Institute of Criminal Sciences.
• 2004. Surprise, in Dresser, Denise. Screams and whispers: intemptary experiences of 38 women. Mexico: Grijalbo.
• 2001. "Comments on social actors", in Juan Guillermo Figueroa and Claudio Stern. Meetings and outcomes in reproductive health: public policies, policy frameworks and social actors. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2001. pp.233-236.

Acknowledgments

• Medal of the King and the Queen of Spain "Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil".
• "Hambre de Justicia", by Grassroots International.
• Medalla Roque Dalton of the Council for Cooperation in Science and Culture of El Salvador.