Karla Quintana He will direct the UN Independent Tracing Institution in Syria.
This was announced this Thursday by Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN):
“Today I announce the appointment of Mrs. Karla Quintana, from Mexico, as head of this Institution. “She (Quintana) and her team must be allowed to fully fulfill their mandate.”
🔴URGENT The Secretary General of the UN names the Mexican Karla Quintana @kiquinta former national search commissioner for persons, Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in #Syria.
📸 @kiquinta pic.twitter.com/jB93saR8ef—UN News (@NoticiasONU) December 19, 2024
Regarding Quintana Ozuna, the UN issued a statement in which it detailed that she has experience in the defense of human rights, as well as in transitional justice, in addition to the fact that, as head of the National Commission for the Search of Disappeared Persons, she “led the efforts to locate more than 100 thousand missing persons and to identify more than 70 thousand bodies (…) established the National Search Registry.”
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The institution that the former Mexican official will lead was created in 2023, after hundreds of Syrian and international organizations issued a joint statement in which they indicated that, since 2011, there have been reports of more than 100,000 missing people or victims of forced disappearance. both in the recently overthrown Government or armed groups, such as the “Islamic State.”
In August 2023, Karla Quintana resigned from the ownership of the National Search Commission (CNB) through a letter that she spread on her X account (@kiquinta); The argument for his departure from the Government of then President López Obrador was because of the “current contexts”.
In the document, the former official commented that the challenges regarding the disappearance of people remain and that the State’s efforts must be focused on a “comprehensive policy of prevention, search and combat against impunity.”
Quintana Osuna’s decision comes after President López Obrador announced on the morning of June 9, 2023 that a new census of missing and unlocated people was being prepared with the support of the state governments, the Interior and the Ministry of Security.
Weeks after Karla Quintana’s resignation, López Obrador commented that it was due to a possible disagreement:
“And we respect those who do not agree, or have already closed a cycle, or do not agree with a strategy that is being carried out, because it is even honest, right?, to say I resign.”
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