Human rights and transnational legal activism. Strategies of NGOs in Mexico and Colombia

This article analyzes the transnational legal activism of human rights NGos in Colombia and Mexico. From a comparative methodology argue that successful transnational pressure on human rights has a determining factor in the coordination strategies of collective actors at the national level. We identified two distinct patterns of action: first, a concentration-coordination strategy of demands in the Colombian case, second a segmentation-fragmentation strategy of demands in the Mexican case.