Politics · Mexico · 6 hrs ago
Mexico’s interior secretary meets families searching for missing relatives
Mexico’s interior secretary met a searchers’ group on November 9 at the Interior Ministry in Mexico City.
The Red Eslabones por los Derechos Humanos brings together families, mainly mothers, searching for missing relatives.
They discussed stronger searches and better support for families affected by disappearances.
They also raised the need to make victims’ and relatives’ genetic profiles available in the National Forensic Data Bank to help identify people.
The group represents more than 100 families and about 180 people, according to one account.
Rodríguez said the government would continue coordinating with families and collectives on search efforts.
The meeting adds to the government’s ongoing talks with families, including a gathering in Hermosillo on October 28 that drew more than 250 people from six states.
Mexico’s Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez met members of the Red Eslabones por los Derechos Humanos on November 9.
The group, made up of families searching for missing relatives, presented concerns and proposals about search efforts.
Topics included coordination among authorities, forensic identification and support for families.
Rodríguez said the Mexican government was willing to continue working with the families and search groups.
- Who
- Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez and members of the Red Eslabones por los Derechos Humanos.
- What
- They met to discuss the search for missing people and the families’ concerns.
- When
- Monday, November 9.
- Where
- The Ministry of the Interior in Mexico.
- Why
- To hear the families’ proposals and strengthen efforts to find missing people.
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Rodríguez led a work meeting in Hermosillo with more than 250 relatives and representatives of groups from six states.
Rodríguez met members of the Red Eslabones por los Derechos Humanos at the Ministry of the Interior.
- Participants
- Red Eslabones por los Derechos Humanos
- Meeting date
- November 9
- Meeting place
- Ministry of the Interior, Mexico
- Collective size
- More than 100 families and around 180 people
- Topics
- Search coordination, forensic identification and support for families
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What people are saying
We listened and expressed the Mexican government’s willingness to continue working in coordination to strengthen efforts to search for their loved ones