Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, dies aged 95

Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, pictured in 2007 (AP)

Rosario Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico’s human rights movement and led her to become the country’s first female presidential candidate, has died at the age of 95.

The National Human Rights Commission now headed by her daughter Rosario Piedra announced the death on its Twitter account, calling her a “pioneer in the defence of human rights, peace and democracy in Mexico”.