According to the CNBP’s National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, Mexico closed last year with its highest number of disappearances, reporting 11,923 victims.
Mexico City, April 23 (However).- The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) instructed the National Person Search Commission (CNBP) reveal how many search actions of missing people they were requested in 2023 by each of the specialized groups in the matter.
According to the case presented by the Commissioner of the Henna, Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadenaa person made a information request to the CNBP after a federal official high-ranking official noted in an interview that last year they had received 302 action requests by collectives who are dedicated to search of peoplebut what only 32 could be attendedThe INAI detailed in a statement.
The citizen submitted a request for information to the National People Search Commission, a body that classified the information on the requests for action made by each group. The Commission argued that making known the details of the care provided would require disclosing the data and activities of the searchers, which would violate their security and could risk their lives, especially in the face of threats from organized crime groups.
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“The truth is that what was requested only corresponds to statistical data that does not account for specific issues that could put the life, health or integrity of those people at risk,” said the Commissioner and proposed revoking the response.
Ibarra Cadena explained that in October 2023, the United Nations Committee against Forced Disappearances called on the Mexican State to guarantee that all necessary actions are carried out to address forced disappearances and with due diligence at all stages of the process, “ which includes attention to requests for actions carried out by groups dedicated to searching for missing people; In short, to establish mechanisms that ensure the participation of victim groups.”
“The actions of these groups have made it possible to resolve cases that, by their nature, imply the complete denial of the human rights of those who have been victims of disappearance and that, of course, affect their families and the community that surrounds them, who suffer the anguish of not knowing the whereabouts of those who one day left and never returned,” explained Ibarra Cadena.
On January 11, search mothers went to the Ministry of the Interior to a national call for victims, in which they demanded justice for the new census that reduced the official number of people not located in the country. Photo: Graciela López Herrera, Cuartoscuro.
The Commissioner considered that disclosing the information requested by the applicant would contribute to the rendering of accounts regarding the exercise of the powers of the obligated subject.
The INAI assured that, according to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons of the CNBP, Mexico closed last year with its highest number of disappearances, reporting 11,923 victims.
In the analysis of the case, led by Ibarra Cadena, it was determined that publishing the requested information will not risk the members of the search groups, since the applicant only required to know how many actions were requested by each of the groups. , without this implying revealing their lines of action regarding the work they carry out in the search for missing people in the country.
Members of the National Search for Life and Missing Persons Querétaro groups, on August 13, 2023. Photo: César Gómez Reyna, Cuartoscuro.
Furthermore, the INAI warned that the statistical information requested must be in the files of the obligated subject, since the latter, through communications, has made said data public. Unanimously, the INAI plenary session revoked the response given by the CNBP and ordered it to provide the number of search actions for missing persons that were requested in 2023 by each of the groups in that area.
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