BY MAUTILIO SOTO
The News
MEXICO CITY – President Enrique Peña Nieto officially opened the National Victims Attention Agency on Monday, saying that the government has an “unavoidable commitment” to those who suffer rights violations.
He said that proof of his commitment was the General Victims Law he passed shortly after being elected, which he classified as a “vanguard legislation” that established the Executive Victims Attention Commission.
“Today marks the beginning of the Mexican governing body in charge of defining and applying public policy in support of victims,” Peña Nieto said, adding, “Its function will be determinant in the design of more efficient programs and actions, such as the improvement of coordination schemes between the three levels of government and civil organizations.”
The new National Victims Attention Agency replaces the former Crime Victim Protection Agency, better known as Provictima.
Peña Nieto outlined the agency’s three main goals: “to construct the National Victims Registry to facilitate victims’ access to assistance, to define the operational rules of the Aid, Assistance and Reparation Fund and to determine measures of judicial support that the three branches of government will offer victims.”
Peña Nieto said that the country has a long road ahead of it in terms of improving human rights record, but he promised to “manage a government that is open, sensible and close to victims and will listen and tend to their demands.”
He said that justice shouldn’t only mean punishing the guilty, but also defending victims’ rights.
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