Cycles of Mobilization and Human Rights Crises: Collective Action of National NGOs and Human Rights in Mexico

This article is a contribution to studies of collective action and human rights mobilization. Two paradigmatic conjunctures in human rights advocacy in Mexico are analyzed and compared using the methodological proposal of cycles of mobilization, arguing that national NGOs have been key players in collective action to generate dynamics of pressure on governments, obliging them to introduce changes in institutional dynamics and socializing human rights discourse to facilitate its appropriation by broad social groups.