Legislation Creates Commissioner for Forced Disappearances and Other Measures Mexico News Daily
go to original March 18, 2015

Although the Mexican government and the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearance were at odds last month, some key recommendations by the latter are likely to become law.

The federal government has announced that it will appoint a new “missing persons czar” and draft new legislation to address the shortcomings identified by the U.N. The General Law on Missing Persons will include penalties of up to 50 years in prison for kidnapping committed by a state agency — police, military, or other civil servant — or a third party acting on behalf of the state.

The law also calls for punishment for the obstruction of investigations, creates federal and state-level databases to catalogue genetic information recovered from corpses, and specifies reparations to victims’ families.

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