"DNA analysis, ethical tribunals and diplomatic pressure are the new instruments that migrants' organisations are wielding to combat the abuses suffered by undocumented migrants in Mexico and the United States.
The Committee of Relatives of Dead and Missing Migrants of El Salvador (COFAMIDE) set up a databank for disappeared migrants, with the support of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and the Salvadoran government.
The databank "is very useful, as it facilitates identification of remains and sustains relatives' hopes of finding missing migrants," founder and secretary general of COFAMIDE Lucy de Acevedo told IPS. "
Migrants traveling to the USA through Mexico suffer many human rights abuses. This article outlines the progress on and need for a DNA database to identify remains of missing migrants found in Arizona. A common protocol should be implemented for Mexico, Central America and the United States to facilitate the identification of bodies found.
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