To What Effect?

Chapter 6 employs the United Nations Principles to combat impunity to help explain the gains that have been made in terms of rights to justice, truth, reparations, and non-recurrence in Mexico. It discusses the judicial outcomes of sustained mobilization by looking at the achievements and limitations of the leading human rights NGO in Nuevo León as well the judicial status of the cases of the three families profiled in this book. It examines the role of sustained mobilization in the passage of the Victims’ Law (2013), which is focused on reparations to victims, and the Law on Enforced Disappearance (2017), which promises progress on the right to truth and non-recurrence if fully implemented. Finally, it assesses the evolution of the victims’ movement—arguing that advances in available movement resources and repertoires of contention have shifted the accountability terrain for victims of violence in Mexico.