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Mexico's National Human Rights Commission
A Critical Assessment
I - Summary and
Recommendations
Remedies
Reform..
Publicity
Collaboration
Accountability
Recommendations
To the CNDH
To the Senate Human
Rights Commission
II - Background
The CNDH's Origins
The CNDH's Mandate,
Structure, and Methods
The CNDH's
Contribution to Human Rights Promotion
III - Mexico's
Obligations Under International Law..
Obligation to
Provide a Remedy
Obligation to Inform..
Victims' Right to
Participate
Applicability to the
CNDH
IV - Remedies
Failing to Follow
Up: Paradigmatic Cases
Crimes of the "Dirty
War"
Crackdown in
Guadalajara
Crackdown inAtenco
Murders of Women in
Ciudad Juarez
How the CNDH Limits
Its Own Mandate
Rejected
Recommendations
Accepted
Recommendations
"Special Reports"
and "General Recommendations"
A Peculiar
Interpretation of the "Legality Principle"
V - Reform..
How the CNDH Limits
Its Own Mandate
Military
Jurisdiction over Human Rights Cases
Discrimination
against Military Officers Living with HIV
Access to the
Airwaves (The "Televisa Law")
Reproductive Rights
in Mexico City
Torture
Juvenile Detention
Centers
When the CNDH Pushes
for Change
VI - Publicity
Concealing Information
on Abuses through "Conciliation"
Uncertain Benefits
of Non-Disclosure
An Unnecessary Price
for Conciliation
Conciliating Serious
Human Rights Abuses
Applying Broad
Confidentiality Norms
VII - Collaboration100
Human Rights Victims100
A Policy of
Exclusion103
Other Human Rights
Bodies106
UNHCHR106
The Executive's
Human Rights Office107
State Commissions108
VIII -
Accountability112
The Need for
Accountability112
Independent
Accountability Mechanisms113
The National
Congress113
The Advisory Council116
Federal Superior
Auditor119
Transparency120
Incomplete Public
Disclosure121
Applying Broad
Confidentiality Norms122
Prohibitively High
Costs for Copies124
Limited Review
Mechanism.. 126
Acknowledgements127
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