Of 80 recommendations that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) made to Mexico on different issues, since 2015, the Mexican government has fully complied with four of them (5%); partially 48 (60%); partially in the substantial part 7 (9%) and another 21 (26%) remain in default.
The four recommendations fully fulfilled are, on the subject of Citizen Security, adopt a national Law on the Use of Force; in Indigenous Peoples, the guarantee of availability of translators from justice services.
Regarding people in prisons, it has been fulfilled to ensure that the National Criminal Execution Law includes international standards that guarantee the rights of persons deprived of liberty with emphasis on due criminal process and social reintegration.
The fourth fully complied with recommendation was on the subject of Torture, where it was requested that the General Law on the matter exclude evidence and confessions obtained through acts of torture and that the accusing party must prove the legality of the evidence.
According to the data from the IACHR’s 2022 report, of the 48 partially fulfilled recommendations, the issue with the most cases in said status is access to justice, with eight out of 10.
Behind it is the issue of protection mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists, in which seven out of 10 recommendations were classified as partially fulfilled.
unfulfilled
On the other hand, the document also noted that a total of 21 recommendations are pending compliance by the Mexican government.
The subject that catalogs the most recommendations in this way is persons deprived of liberty.
The pending issues are correcting the excessive application of preventive detention; adopt all the necessary measures to guarantee a strategy of social reintegration; make public information on international standards for accrediting prisons.
In addition to implementing measures to guarantee adequate detention conditions, especially for groups in vulnerable situations; prison policies with a gender approach and the elimination of barriers for people with disabilities.
absences
Regarding the issue of disappearances, the IACHR found that, five years after the entry into force of the General Law on Disappearances and Forced Disappearances, it has not been regulated and a National Forensic Data Program, the national registry, has not been created. of unidentified and unclaimed deceased persons, the national registry of graves or the National Exhumation Program.
Anna Karolina Chimiak, co-director of the Center for Justice for Peace and Development AC (Cepad) considered that there is “little credibility” in what corresponds to the National Registry of missing and missing persons, in charge of which is the National Search Commission of people.
The foregoing, he specified, is because in the media there is an increase in the number of search files for the disappeared, however, said increases are not reflected in the official figures.
The co-director of Cepad considered that although “there has been progress during this six-year term, in what corresponds to the recognition of the problem (…) on many occasions this recognition, since it has not been full: there has been no opening on the part of the government to receive criticism.
Security militarization
The IACHR regretted the authorities’ decision to extend, until 2028, the participation of the permanent Armed Forces in public security tasks, while ensuring that the country’s internal public order must be in the hands of civilian police forces.
Erubiel Tirado, coordinator of the National Security, Democracy and Human Rights program at the Universidad Iberoamericana, considered that the increase in the deployment of elements of the National Guard in the country has brought with it more human rights violations.
He added that in the Armed Forces there is no internalization of respect for the rule of law and human rights.
He also mentioned that in the case of institutions such as the National Guard, the preparation of the elements, before carrying out police tasks, is minimal, therefore, “in professional technical terms (…) in the legitimate use of State force (are) steamed.”
