The Fundación por la Justicia (“Foundation for Justice”), a
MacArthur grantee, and Mexico’s Attorney General have signed an
agreement to create a Forensic Commission to investigate the
mass murders of migrants in Northern Mexico. The Commission was
created in response to several mass killings of migrants from
2010-2012. To date, no one has been charged for these crimes and
advocates and families of the victims have been denied access to
information about the pending investigations. Each year, an
estimated 140,000 Central American migrants transit through
Mexico on their way to the United States and are increasingly
subjected to crime and human rights abuses due to Mexico’s
deteriorating security environment, lack of coordination among
migration and security authorities, and lack of supervision over
local security agencies. The commission is intended to help
establish protections for undocumented individuals and legal
mechanisms in Mexico and the region to help victims and their
families obtain redress, justic