The protection of all persons against enforced disappearances
“Intervention at the closing by the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Francisco Estrada Correa:
Forced disappearances in our country have been a scourge for more than 60 years and in the face of this, in the Mexican State, institutional frameworks of human and criminal rights have been established based on new norms applicable to them, however, institutional practices and The necessary learning is being very costly and slow, the difficulties of which have most likely been sustained by the complicity of many cases of authorities in addition to the lack of political will to make institutional action timely and effective.
At the CNDH we are making an effort to generate real and expeditious attention to cases but it is clear that there are significant deficits in the administration and justice investigation institutions in the Commission itself and in those in charge of carrying out the investigation. repair of damage.
Thus, not only have the present problems not been resolved, but in many cases it has had a revictimizing impact for which we are all jointly responsible and we have to take charge to resolve.
Conclusions of the discussion:
• Verify and make public the information available in the CNDH on enforced disappearances to detect structural issues that must be addressed, such as where the deficient classification of cases occurs, what are the practical characteristics and regions of the disappearances, as well as identify possible complicity of the disappearances. authorities that make it impossible to attend to the forced disappearance
• Address particular institutional problems such as: the need to support the proper emergence and functioning of the extraordinary mechanism of forensic identification, among other reasons, in the face of possible operational difficulties derived from the worrying performance in the local institutions of administrative disappearance of bodies, as well as the possibility of resuming the best practices carried out by the Forensic Commission for the identification of remains located in the community of San Fernando, Tamaulipas and in Cadereyta, Nuevo León to obtain consolidated non-fragmented opinions and provide complete and clear information to the families, in addition, the The need to verify the terms of action of the FGR in matters of forced disappearance given that the mechanisms in place for this are not properly implemented, or even the need to deliver challenges to victims’ families, among others, in specific cases.
• Address general institutional problems such as the request that this CNDH assume leadership to achieve the necessary inter-institutional coordination for the immediate search for the disappearance, forensic identification and search for remains and care for the family victims of the disappeared persons, even fighting arguments that they defined in the discussion as legaloids.
• In addition, the need to correct deficits for a timely and adequate investigation of cases and identification of human remains in particular by verifying the functioning of the context analysis units and the need to take care that budget reductions do not compromise the possibility of institutional functioning.
• Deficit in the application of investigation standards, the lack of appropriate follow-up to the recommendations and the need for the CNDH to attract cases from the local commissions, given its possibility to investigate them, even due to the risks that those who make up these institutions have locally.
• Finally, generate political will for an effective international coordination to combat forced disappearance in the country, such as achieving the recognition of the mandatory nature of the urgent actions requested by the Committee against Forced Disappearances so that international recommendations on the matter are followed that the external support mechanism for search and investigation related to migrants works and ensure that the CEAV fully assumes the obligation to repair the damage derived from an international resolution, which we are already working on together with the authorities.