Pushing for New Legislation, 100 Organizations Demand Forced Disappearance Law in Mexico Television del Sur
go to original June 1, 2015

Over 22,300 people are missing in Mexico, almost 10,000 of whom have been reported during President Enrique Pena Nieto term.

Mexican demonstrators representing several organizations delivered a message to the government on behalf of 100 Mexican and international organizations that signed on to a letter demanding the creation of new legislation on forced disappearances in Mexico, La Jornada reports.

Pushing for new comprehensive legislation, the 100 signing organizations emphasized the need to create an independent body to implement searches for disappeared persons and introduce strong protocols for how to carry out such searches. The proposal also stressed the importance of centralizing investigations through the creation of a national victims registry and database, among other measures.

Protesters, who marched demanding that the country's disappeared persons, including the 43 Ayotzinapa students, be brought home alive, read the declaration of the 100 organizations in front of the Mexican Senate.

The proposed new legislation would act on the recommendations of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances, whose findings on Mexico published in February 2015 included concerns with the state's compliance with the relevant international convention on forced disappearances.

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