Experts Report Mexican Human Rights Commission Is Costly and Useless teleSUR
go to original July 27, 2015

Protecting human rights in Mexico is a costly activity that often doesn’t end in meaningful changes, according to a recent investigative report from daily EL Excelsior. The report highlighted the problems of one of the country’s most prominent human rights organizations, the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH).

According to the report, the CNDH is one of the most expensive human rights organizations in the world after the Peruvian, Dutch, Australian and Guatemalan organizations. The report pointed out the that 70 percent of the commission's budget was allocated to its members' wages, while only 30 percent were allocated for the actual investigation of abuses committed against citizens.

This situation explained why only about one percent of queries presented to the commission, ended on a human rights recommendation.

The report concluded that the commission's results did not correspond to the allocated budget so the commissioners can properly protect and promote human rights in the country.

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