Overview
- Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez chaired the session, citing President Claudia Sheinbaum’s directive to strengthen search, location and identification efforts across all levels of government.
- National Search Commission chief Martha Lidia Pérez Gumecindo proposed reactivating the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, updating the Homologated Search Protocol, and creating a working group with the National Citizen Council to draft the law’s regulation.
- Officials called for a well-organized National Search Plan with clear indicators and urged state authorities to complete Regional Search Plans through upcoming regional meetings.
- International and justice entities participated, including ONU-DH representative Humberto Henderson, UNFPA human identification lead Maximilian Murck, and FGR human rights prosecutor Ricardo Sánchez Pérez del Pozo.
- The CNB committed to continue technical cooperation with UNFPA’s Human Identification Program to strengthen identification capacity.