Overview

• On July 28, the Senate commissions of Government and Human Rights ratified a standardized evaluation methodology to select members of the National Citizen Council overseeing Mexico’s missing persons search system.
• Preliminary screening of 138 registrants narrowed the field to 44 eligible candidates divided into specialists, civil society representatives and relatives of the missing.
• Shortlisted applicants hail from ten states, including Jalisco, Nuevo León and Sinaloa, providing nationwide geographic diversity on the council.
• The council’s eventual membership will include five family members, four human rights and forensic specialists and four civil society representatives empowered to issue recommendations and report irregularities.
• After interviews from July 30 to August 1, the commissions must submit a motivated eligibility report to the Junta de Coordinación Política by August 15 for final Senate approval.