CNDH recognizes institutionality to address disappearances

Rosario Piedra Ibarra, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), accepted before the Committee against Forced Disappearances of the United Nations that in Mexico there is institutional weakness, which makes it difficult for cases of forced disappearances to be properly addressed. He also acknowledged that the Mexican Republic is going through a crisis of illegal deprivations of liberty, which has been dragging for years accumulating more than 90,000 cases and more than 20,000 in the current government. During the meeting attended by members of the UN delegation, the head of the CNDH explained that it is as a result of corruption and impunity in the Mexican system that disappearances have increased. Read more: HRW compares AMLO to Donald Trump for mishandling the Covid-19 pandemicIn front of Horacio Ravena, Sergio Giuliano and Juan Pablo Albán Alencastro, Piedra Ibarra stressed that the current federal administration is making reforms to the Missing Persons Program (PERDES) so that it can fulfill the function that was designated to it; in this case, to protect and guarantee the human rights of the victims of enforced disappearances, as well as their families and close circles.” The Mexican State has a pending issue with the victims of forced disappearances and their families, both in those cases committed by state agents and in those that are the responsibility of individuals, so it is urgent that authorities and society act together to settle that debt, “said Rosario Piedra.La official stressed that the Mexican State has a debt to people who have been the target of illegal deprivations of liberty in their against and with their families, so he emphasized the relevance of joint actions between society and government to solve the crisis that persists in national territory. In this context, the head of the CNDH proposed to achieve the proper functioning of forensic medical services throughout Mexico, as well as the follow-up of the construction of regional human identification centers and to put forward the taking of actions that concrete, both at the federal and local level, structures that were created for the search for disappeared persons in the time frames determined by the General Law on Forced Disappearance of Persons, Disappearance Committed by Individuals and of the National System of Search for Persons. In addition, Piedra Ibarra contemplated the designation of resources to strengthen the training and certification of police, experts, public prosecutors and all personnel who have part in the search for the disappeared. Read more: Will you talk about the electricity reform? AMLO travels to the USA to meet with Joe Biden and Justin TrudeauFor his part, he stressed that during his tenure at the CNDH, the agency has issued 9 recommendations for serious human rights violations related to the crime of forced disappearance, which were sent to different federal and state authorities. In addition, he highlighted the creation of the Special Office to Investigate the Repression and Enforced Disappearances due to Political Violence of the State during the Recent Past.



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