BILL NUMBER: SR 7	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 2, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  DECEMBER 1, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara

                        DECEMBER 1, 2014

   Relative to Mexico and human rights


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
             HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST



   WHEREAS, On September 26, 2014, forty-three college students from
the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Guerrero, Mexico, disappeared in
Iguala, Mexico; and
   WHEREAS, Mexico's Attorney General, Jésus Murillo Karam, announced
in a televised press conference on November 7, 2014, that the
evidence indicates the forty-three missing students had been executed
and incinerated in the municipal dump of Cocula, Mexico, by the
Guerreros Unidos cartel; and
   WHEREAS, It has been estimated that 25,000 to 26,000 people have
disappeared in Mexico since 2006; and
   WHEREAS, The disappeared often include the very vulnerable, such
as poor migrants, indigenous people, and women and children; and
   WHEREAS, According to a report by Human Rights Watch, the state
and federal army units in Iguala failed to intervene to protect the
students; and
   WHEREAS, The director of the American division of Human Rights
Watch, José Miguel Vivanco, described the murders in Iguala, Mexico,
and an earlier massacre in Tlatlaya, Mexico, as "the worst atrocities
we've seen in Mexico in years, but they are hardly isolated
incidents"; and
   WHEREAS, There has been an international outcry regarding the
deaths of the missing students in Mexico from, among others, the
United Nations, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the European
Parliament, and the international human rights community; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California,  That the
Senate adds its voice to those in the international community
condemning the disappearance and deaths of the missing college
students from Mexico as a violation of human rights; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Senate offers its support to all those in
Mexico standing up for human rights and justice against corruption
and violence; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Senate urges the government of Mexico to
support further dialogue between the international community,
including the United States, and human rights organizations on human
rights reforms; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.