▲ The Prodh Center promoted a claim for protection in 2021 in defense of the victims’ right to compensation for damages.Photo Roberto García Ortiz
From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, p. 15
On the eve of the discussion in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on the draft general declaration of unconstitutionality of the reform of the General Victims Law (LGV), the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), together with Fundar, Center for Analysis and Research, called on the highest court to put the aggrieved at the center of the discussion and guarantee the effective protection of their rights.
The SCJN will debate today the project led by Minister Giovanni Figueroa Mejía, with which “it has in its hands the opportunity to ensure the effective protection of the rights of thousands of victims in Mexico, demanding that a fixed, labeled and irreducible budget be reestablished,” they said in a statement.
The importance, they stressed, is that “the minimum budget must be guaranteed through the available legal instruments and must be specifically labeled for help, care and repair of damages, so that it is not used for other purposes.”
In 2020, with the reform to the LGV, the postulate contained in article 132, section I, which included the guarantee of a minimum resource, which could not be less than 0.014 percent of the programmable expenditure of the Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) of the immediately previous year, was eliminated.
Consequently, the Prodh Center promoted a request for protection in 2021. The first chamber of the SCJN, in a session on March 13, 2024, unanimously resolved the protection under review 675/2022, in whose ruling it declared that the elimination of the aforementioned budgetary guarantee in favor of the victims constitutes an unjustified regressive measure and violates the principle of progressivity, in relation to the human right to comprehensive reparation of the damage.
Congress was ignored
Because the Congress of the Union did not make the necessary changes to reverse this regressive measure, “the SCJN has in its hands, when discussing the draft general declaration of unconstitutionality, the opportunity to guarantee the rights of the victims, establishing clear and mandatory effects.”
The aforementioned civil organizations emphasized that the decision is central to ensuring the full exercise of the victims’ constitutional guarantees of assistance, protection, care, truth, justice and comprehensive reparation, particularly in a context where violence continues at alarming levels and the number of direct and indirect victims continues to increase.
