Abstract
This article aims to analyze the performance of the Mexican non-governmental organization (NGO) Center for Women’s Human Rights (CEDEHM) in the Alvarado case against Mexico within the Inter-American human rights system. With that, it seeks to reveal the importance of political-legal intermediation on theoretical debates about the mobilization of international human rights norms. The main argument is that the intermediation established by NGOs between victims and institutional spheres is central to determine whether human rights mobilization will have a disruptive or conservative impact. In the Alvarado case, the intermediation performed by CEDEHM assigns a central role to victims and their families, contributing to the formation of their political agency and to the politicization of the human rights language.
Keywords:
Political-Legal Intermediation; Non-Governmental Organizations; Human Rights