Servicios y Asesoría para la Paz

Servicios y Asesoría para la Paz has more than twenty years of experience in supporting victims of violence and human rights abuses, and in facilitating dialogue among different actors for peaceful conflict resolution. The award supports implementation of the 2018 National Law on Disappearances by supporting joint activities to strengthen coordination among the various collectives and family groups that comprise Mexico’s National Movement for Our Disappeared. The award helps advance Mexico’s National System for Searching for Missing Persons, including the adoption of protocols and guidelines by federal and state-level agencies charged with searching for the disappeared.

Servicios de Asesoría y Paz (SERAPAZ) is a civil society organization with over twenty years' experience in supporting victims of violence and human rights abuses. The award supports an initiative among organizations in twenty states to monitor and document government implementation of policies that address disappearances. Bringing victims' families and other grassroots groups together with human rights organizations that have advocacy expertise, the initiative’s goal is to generate evidence on gaps in policy implementation and call attention to changes necessary to improve investigations of disappearances.