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● projectActive · national · 2015

Data Cívica

Organization that uses data and technology to defend human rights in Mexico, with a focus on enforced disappearance, violence and femicides.

White satellite dish in a desert landscape under blue skyillustrative atlas image · Ray Strassburger / Pexels
DCData Cívica A.C.ngoMMMónica Meltis
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01 The context

It cleans, cross-references and analyzes official records to expose inconsistencies and equip families and organizations with advocacy tools. It developed 'Volver a Desaparecer', which documents how thousands of names disappear from official records, and in 2024 it denounced irregularities in the Estrategia Nacional de Búsqueda.

02 How it works

method · Analysis and cleaning of official records datamethod · Evidence-based advocacy with organizations and familiesmethod · Data science applied to human rightstool · Open databases and visualizations on disappearance and violencetool · 'Volver a Desaparecer' platform

03 What it stands on

Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
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The evidence 2 ›
ContextData Cívica denuncia irregularidades en estrategia nacional de búsqueda de desaparecidosProceso · 2024
EvidenceA quienes nos faltan: datos para encontrarlesData Cívica / ODIM (UNAM) · 2025

04 Go to the source

Visit the official site ↗datacivica.org