Mapping System of the Location of the Bodies or Remains of Forcibly Disappeared Persons
The Attorney General's Office is responsible for preparing maps indicating the alleged location of the bodies or remains of disappeared persons, according to the National Search Plan. The confidential sharing of information on the location of bodies or remains of the disappeared is facilitated by the creation of a communication channel by the Public Ministry, the Attorney General's Office and the Judges. The bodies and remains that have not been identified are registered in the Missing Persons and Corpses Information System. Competent authorities are obliged to take a biological sample for genetic identification before the burial of unidentified remains or corpses. They are also responsible for reporting to the National Registry of Disappeared People the final location of the bodies or remains, in order to allow their future recovery.Legal Instrument
Law establishing a mechanism for paying tribute to victims of forced disappearance and providing for measures to locate and identify them
Treatment
The UN CED acknowledged the measures adopted by the State to search for disappeared persons and to identify their remains in the event of death however, it expressed concerned about reports of serious difficulties, in practice, in searching for disappeared persons and in identifying their remains including delays in the identification and handover of the exhumed remains.