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National Commission of Human Rights (Mexico)
The National Commission of Human Rights of Mexico (CNDH) is the main government agency responsible for promoting and protecting human rights of Mexicansand people who are in the country, mainly to abuses by government officials or by the state . Federal, according to Article 102 of the Constitution of Mexico (amended on September 13, 1999): theseinclude management and budgetary autonomy and legal personality and its own.
Its constitution and functions are similar to the ombudsman in other countries, and the President of the Commission performsfunctions equivalent to those of an ombudsman.
Functions
The Mexican constitution states that the bodies of human rights protection, both the Union and of each state, "hear complaints against actsand omissions of administrative nature by any authority or public servant, with the exception of Power Federal Judicial, who violate these rights "(art. 102 °).
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The Office of the Poor Law of 1847 promoted by Ponciano Arriaga in the state of San Luis Potosi is the more distant background of the CNDH, said prosecutor also has influenced the world tothe various figures of ombudsman.
Another precedent constitutes the University Rights Ombudsman, established on May 29, 1985 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
On February 13, 1989 wasborn the Human Rights Directorate within the Ministry of the Interior of the federation.
The CNDH, as such, was created through the constitutional reform of 28 January 1992 (Article 102 B), which gavethe character of "agency" with legal status. Another constitutional amendment, published in the Official Journal of the Federation on September 13, 1999, gave its current budgetary and managementautonomy, finally releasing it by the Executive.
The CNDH has one of the largest budgets defenders in Latin America (reached 801 million pesos in 2007) and his staff exceeds 1000 people, which makes...
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