Members of the GIEI, appointed by the IACHR, from left to right: Carlos Martín Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, Francisco Cox Vial, and Alejandro Valencia VillaMembers of the GIEI, appointed by the IACHR, from left to right: Carlos Martín Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, Francisco Cox Vial, and Alejandro Valencia VillaMembers of the GIEI, appointed by the IACHR, from left to right: Carlos Martín Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, Francisco Cox Vial, and Alejandro Valencia VillaMembers of the GIEI, appointed by the IACHR, from left to right: Carlos Martín Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, Francisco Cox Vial, and Alejandro Valencia Villa

Members of the GIEI, appointed by the IACHR, from left to right: Carlos Martín Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, Francisco Cox Vial, and Alejandro Valencia Villa

 

2020

Acuerdo entre el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y la Secretaría General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos para la reinstalación del Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos y Expertas Independientes para brindar asistencia técnica internacional en la investigación del caso Ayotzinapa

La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos firmó el 6 de mayo de 2020 el Acuerdo Internacional para la reinstalación del GIEI que prestará asistencia técnica internacional para el caso Ayotzinapa. Junto con la firma del Estado mexicano y representantes de los estudiantes desaparecidos, queda oficializada y en vigencia su reinstalación.



2014

Agreement for Technical Assistance with Mexico

On November 18, 2014, the IACHR formalized an agreement for technical assistance with the Mexican State and the representatives of the missing students of Ayotzinapa. Through this agreement, the Commission will be able to appoint an Interdisciplinary Group of technical cooperation for the search of the 43 missing students from the Rural Normal School "Raúl Isidro Burgos" Ayotzinapa, Iguala as well as the investigations and actions to be adopted in order to punish the perpetrators and the assistance to the families. The primary purpose of this agreement is to solve the structural problems underlying the forced disappearances in Mexico, which have not been limited to the students of Iguala. The ceremony of the formalization of the agreement was held on November 18 in the Federal District and counted with the presence of the IACHR Rapporteur for Mexico, Commissioner James Cavallaro; the Executive Secretary of the IACHR, Emilio Alvarez Icaza; the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, and the beneficiaries of the precautionary measure granted by the IACHR to the students of Ayotzinapa, who were represented by Mario Pattern of Human Rights Centre Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centre PRODH). The parents of the missing students were also present as well as representatives of the students of Ayotzinapa and representatives of the Attorney General's Office and the Interior Ministry.