The Academic Senate of the State University of Milan unanimously approved the granting of the honorary title of Master’s Degree in International Relations to three women who, according to the Senate’s resolution “represent in a particularly significant way the movements born in Argentina and later in Mexico for the rights of the victims of enforced disappearances and who are testimony to an untiring commitment in the defense of human rights and in the search for truth and justice”.
The representatives of the historic Plaza de Mayo, Vera Vigevani Jarach and Estela Barnes de Carlotto, respectively Mother of the Plaza de Mayo-Linea Founder and President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, and Yolanda Morán Isais, who in recent years took charge of the same mission in Mexico, coordinating FUNDEM – Fuerzas Unidas por Nuestros Desaparecidos en México, will receive the recognition.
The honorary degrees, proposed by the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies of the State University, will be awarded during the opening ceremony of the academic year, which will take place in February.
On Thursday October 5, 2017 at 10:00 Ariel Dulitzky spoke before the Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives at a briefing on enforced disappearances in Mexico. Ariel Dulitzky is the Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. He highlighted key findings from a Human Rights Clinic report on the relationship between organized crime and the state in Coahuila, Mexico and the human rights violations, including disappearances, that have been committed there. The report analyzes the most important information arising out of witness testimonies from three U.S. federal trials against members of the Zeta cartel. The report maps out the hierarchical structure of the Zetas, documents the links between the Zetas and Coahuila state authorities, and identifies human rights abuses perpetrated by the cartel. 
No More Blood in Mexico 