In the case of the tragedy in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where 40 migrants burned to death and more than 20 were injured, the law must be “applied” while safeguarding the full autonomy and independence of judges to clarify the facts and responsibilities, but what The main thing is to prevent the repetition of such acts, said Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado Castro.
“You have to draw lessons for a principle, which is very important, of human rights, which is that of non-repetition. So, yes, this must be clarified, but above all, measures must be taken so that it never happens again.
In an interview in the Senate on the subject, the representative in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) was clear in the sense that “what you have to do is apply the law.
“You don’t have to invent new rules. The main thing, and I think that there is agreement here again, is that the full autonomy and independence of the judges be preserved so that not only the facts but also the responsibilities are effectively clarified.”
From his perspective, he insisted, “it is not only in terms of what the law establishes” in the sense that “whoever has responsibility has to respond in accordance with the law, but above all to prevent acts of this nature from occurring again.” .
Sovereignty
On the letter that Jesús Peña Palacios, deputy representative in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH), sent last Thursday to the members of the Political Coordination Board (JCP) of the Senate, for the who asked to approve the pending appointments of three commissioners of the National Transparency Institute, Fernández-Maldonado Castro acknowledged that “each State is sovereign over how it is organized.
“I think that no actor is against supervisory mechanisms for transparency, but each State is absolutely sovereign in how it is organized and, indeed, if one reviews the different countries, one will see that there are different mechanisms, different entities.”
