Jared Laureles and Jessica Xantomila
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, October 24, 2024, p. 10
After Morena in the Senate modified the reform initiative that he presented so that protections against changes to the Constitution do not apply, organizations and groups of relatives of missing persons urged to guarantee that none of these modifications affect or violate the principle of progressiveness
of human rights, established in article 1 of the Magna Carta.
In this sense, the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) greeted the broad, solid and plural defense
of said constitutional article, reformed in 2011, as well as the openness to protect its content, since – he emphasized – has been key to the progressive advancement of human rights
recognized in international standards.
In a position, the Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico expressed its confidence that the proposal to modify article 1 of the Constitution be withdrawn as announced yesterday in Senate committees, since – they warned – the proposal presented on Tuesday by the coordinator of Morena, Adam Augusto Lopez, limits the application of international regulations and conventionality control
which represents a regressive act
which goes against Mexico’s obligation with the 2011 constitutional reform on human rights.
The more than 90 groups of relatives of missing persons from 24 states of the country, grouped in the movement, emphasized that said article, relating to the protection of human rights, It has been a tool that strengthens the search for missing people in Mexico
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For its part, the Miguel Agustín Pro Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), considered positive
that Article 1 of the Constitution is not reformed.
However, he noted that concern remains
for the proposed modifications to article 107, since will cancel any possibility of subjecting constitutional reforms to minimum controls, even with respect to procedure.
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