Organizations of the civil society defenders of the Human Rights They spoke out against the re-election of Rosario Piedra Ibarra to lead the presidency of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH).
Within the framework of the Open Parliament to hear the opinion of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), regarding the profile of who should head the Human Rights Commission, 12 of 13 organizations decided in favor of an independent person, sin partisan bias.
Santiago Aguirre, of the Miguel Agustín Prodh Human Rights Center, said that a new proactive, concentrated, autonomous and close ownership is required. victims, Therefore, “we do not support the idea of the re-election of the current incumbent,” not because of a people issue, he said, but because of the nature of the organization and because an independent, autonomous and counterbalancing profile is essential.
By Article 19, Pedro Cardenas He said that whoever assumes ownership of the CNDH “It must be non-partisan, independent, with the notion that freedom of expression is not free, but part of the democratic sphere.”
In this regard, María Sirvent Bravo from the Documenta AC Organizationstressed that a person is required who independently assumes the leadership of the institution and who investigates exhaustively, since “human rights violations are not things of the past.”
Juan Martin Perez Garciafrom the Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico (Redim), He said that it is important to strengthen the autonomy of the organization from its ownership, so it should not have partisan affiliation; and recognize children and adolescents as citizens and part of the solutions.
While Angela Guerrero Alcántara, of Cea Social Justice, He pointed out that before a re-election “an accountability exercise must be carried out on the current incumbent to know what was done and what was not done,” and considered that beyond political struggles, commitments that were made were not fulfilled. Stone Rosary Ibarra did when presenting his work plan in the Senate.
Seeing that the majority of the organizations were against the re-election of Piedra Ibarra, senators from Morena to defend it; However, the president of the Justice Commission, the morenista Javier Corral, He asked them to listen to the organizations, and not debate personal achievements.
Even the also morenoist, Manuel Huerta, requested consistency with the initiative of the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum regarding “non-reelection”, which is why he considered that keeping Piedra Ibarra at the head of the CNDH would be contrary to the proposed project.
Jorge Alfonso Victoria Maldonadoof the Center for Higher Studies Justo Sierra O’ Reallywas the only one who spoke out in favor of Rosario Piedra continuing as head of the CNDH, “since they perceive measurable and verifiable progress, in addition to compliance with the law.”
In this way, starting this Thursday, October 24, and until Saturday, the 26th, the appearances of the 48 people who registered and met the requirements to lead the CNDH. And no later than November 8, the results of the procedure will be published.
Whoever is elected to the ownership of the CNDH He will begin his position on November 16, 2024 and will end on November 15, 2029. The vote of two-thirds of the present members of the Senate is required, that is, the qualified majority.