09-09-2020 03:02 via kvoa.com

Victims, feminists take over Mexico human rights office

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of feminists and crime victims has taken over the offices of Mexico’s governmental Human Rights Commission, leading to a stand-off in which both sides are expressing worries about rights violations. The activists who started the takeover last week have refused to leave, and they vow to turn the commission’s historic building in Mexico City’s colonial-era downtown into a shelter for victims. They have taken paintings of Mexican heroes from the bu
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