Human Rights Body Tells United Nations It Will Fight Mexican Disappearances Television del Sur
go to original May 18, 2015

Family members and classmates of the 43 forcibly disappeared Ayotzinapa students traveled to the U.S. and will now go to South America to demand justice. (EFE)

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) told the U.N. it will work towards resolving cases of enforced disappearances, as well as toward preventing and punishing further cases, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported Sunday.

CNDH's Ismael Eslava Perez assured the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances that CNDH is dedicated to pressuring Mexican authorities to carry out thorough investigations of enforced disappearances to reveal the facts and ensure that justice is served.

Perez stressed that impunity, violence, and insecurity in the country undermine its institutions and progress in the area of human rights, calling for an improved working relationship between state institutions and the human rights body, particularly in the area of enforced disappearances.

CNDH action on enforced disappearances will include issuing recommendations based on various investigations and releasing the findings of the investigation into the disappearances 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Guerrero last fall, as well as findings of other enforced disappearance cases.

Meanwhile, parents of the 43 victims of enforced disappearance from the Ayotzinapa teachers' training school are going to South America, after having traveled to the U.S. and Canada, as they seek to raise international awareness.

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