Promoting Access to Justice for Migrants and Their Families
Channel: Fundación para la Justicia
Date: 01/12/2022

Families of missing migrants face many obstacles while searching for relatives: it is difficult to navigate the Mexican institutions that investigate migrant deaths and almost impossible to recover the remains of a loved one--especially if they died in another country.

To address these difficulties, the Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de Derecho (FJEDD) helped families collectively organize and propose the creation of a transnational mechanism for migrant justice. In March 2015, during a hearing with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Mexican government listened to these families--approving the creation of a regional mechanism to facilitate the search for disappeared migrants and establishing a forensic database for unidentified remains.

N-Map produced a video with FJEDD to visually explain the regional mechanism and urge diplomats to back their government’s implementation efforts during this important moment.