Impacts and risks from lack of transparency
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Impacts and risks from lack of transparency
Transparency is one way to promote citizen participation and
accountability. For this reason, information disclosed by government
agencies should be: timely, accessible, verifiable, understandable, up to
date, and complete.
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Transparency should also be transversal: this is
absolutely essential for diagnosing and evaluating the implementation
of government obligations regarding human rights, so that access to
information should be guaranteed without bias, including gender bias.
On several occasions requests to SEDENA and SEMAR have sought data
disaggregated by gender on issues such as use of firearms or civilians
killed in military operations. The official responses have stated that the
agencies do not have this data, as we see in the following response from
SEDENA:
“Regarding your questions… you are informed that in this Secretariat’s database of
attacks on military personnel, there is no information in the registry of persons
deceased, injured and detained, on sex, gender, if they indigenous, indigenous
language or languages spoken, disability, nationality or migratory status; for that
reason, directive 07/17 issued by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to
Information and Protection of Personal Data is applicable [as it] establishes that it is
not necessary for the Transparency Committee to issue a resolution of non-
existence of information in those cases in which an analysis of rules that apply to
the request suggests no obligation by the agency to have the information; and
when there is no evidence supporting a belief that the information should exist in
the agency’s records.”
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(highlighting is ours)
What we can see in this response is that SEDENA does not consider this
type of disaggregation of information to be a requirement for its
records. Risks to access to information can also be reflected in the
indicators - or the lack of indicators - that agencies use when they
systematize information, and above all what is measured. When there is
an absence of indicators, such as measuring impacts by gender, ethnicity
or age, it appears that there is disinterest in this information, such as by
not institutionalizing transversal or intersectional perspectives that
allow us to understand the impacts of these events on the population.
Such non-existence of information is a symptom of how government
agencies are making operational decisions.
Accountability is a government responsibility. In the absence of
government assessments that include disaggregated official
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SEDENA, response to information request, Folio 0000700078821, March 27, 20 21.
What we can see in
this response is that
SEDENA does not
consider this type
of disaggregation
of information to
be a requirement
for its records
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