Amnesty Urgent Action: Woman Human Rights Defender Disappeared in Mexico

Join Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Network, come gather with us to write letters that help to halt executions, support human rights defenders and free prisoners of conscience—people jailed solely for the peaceful expression of their beliefs and identity.

Amnesty Urgent Actions ask our community to flood the mailboxes, inboxes, phones and social media of authorities when someone is in imminent danger of human rights violations.

Our Urgent Action gatherings in Taiwan take action for a fairer world. Because of the actions of individuals, lives have been saved, unfair laws have changed, the wrongfully imprisoned have been released. The words we write can change lives and make a difference.

At the event, we will come together as a group of people - anyone can join - to take action on a case concerning human rights abuses. We will provide you with details of the urgent action and suggestions about what to write. Paper and pens will be provided, afterwards we will collect your letters to post. This is a community event so there will also be some time for mingling and getting to know each other better.

For this month's urgent action we will be calling on Mexican authorities to take all necessary steps and resources to find defender Sandra Domínguez alive in coordination with their relatives and all the authorities responsible for the search, as well as bring those responsible for the disappearance to justice.

Sandra Domínguez is an Ayuuk indigenous defender from Oaxaca, a state located in southern Mexico. She is a lawyer and litigates cases of violence against women. In 2020, she publicly denounced a WhatsApp group where officials of the state of Oaxaca participated. In that chat, sexual images of indigenous women were circulating. Sandra, who was one of the victims whose images were shared, filed a criminal complaint against one of the officials involved in the chat.

Sandra Domínguez and her husband Alexander Hernández disappeared on 4 October, 2024. The number of missing and disappeared people remained high in Mexico. In 2024, the National Search Commission (CNB) registered at least 10,228 new denounces of missing and disappeared people. According to official figures, a total of 116,615 people were registered as missing and disappeared between 1952 and October 2024.

This event is free to attend, we just ask all participants to purchase an item from the venue's menu to support the space.