124 4.2.4. Comparison of genetic information from the bodies of unidentified women or girls deprived of life in Chihuahua with missing persons on a national level 509. The representatives asked that a national database be set up to facilitate the identification of persons reported as missing. They also stated that a national database should be created to allow comparison of the information on missing persons with information on persons who have been found dead and recorded as unidentified. 510. The State did not refer to this issue specifically. However, it mentioned the socalled “Human Identity Program” when it proposed to the victims’ next of kin that they should collaborate with the EAAF in order to confirm the identity of the bodies found in the cotton field. 511. Although the Court observes that the State created a register with data on women who are missing in the Municipality of Juárez and a forensic DNA databank,490 the Tribunal has no probative elements to allow it to conclude that the State created a national database of disappeared persons. Furthermore, even though the Court observes that there is a forensic DNA database with genetic information on some of the next of kin of victims of gender-based murder and of some bodies that were found,491 it has no evidence that the State has compared the information on disappeared women at the national level, or the genetic information of the next of kin of those disappeared women with the genetic information extracted from the bodies of any women or girl deprived of life and unidentified in Chihuahua. Moreover, there is no information in the case file to allow the Tribunal to determine whether the information contained in said databases is sufficient, or their level of effectiveness and results in relation to the investigations of the disappearances and murders of women in Ciudad Juárez. 512. The Court finds that the rationale for creating a database of disappeared women and girls at the national level, and updating and comparing the genetic information from the relatives of missing persons with that of unidentified bodies is the possibility that the bodies of some of the women or girls found in Chihuahua belong to individuals who disappeared in other states of the Federation, and even in other countries. Consequently, as it has in other cases,492 the Court orders: (i) the creation or updating of a database with the personal information available on disappeared women and girls at the national level; (ii) the creation or updating of a database with the necessary personal information, principally DNA and tissue samples, of the next of kin of the disappeared who consent to this – or that is ordered by a judge – so that the State can store this personal information with the sole purpose of locating a disappeared person, and (iii) the creation or updating of a database with the genetic information and tissue samples from the body of any unidentified woman or girl deprived of life in the State of Chihuahua. The State must protect the personal information in these databases at all times. 490 Cf. Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of Crimes related to the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez, Informe Final, supra note 87, folios 14582 and 14587 to 14594. 491 Cf. Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of Crimes related to the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez, Informe Final, supra note 87, folios 14582 and 14587 to 14594. 492 Cf. Case of Molina Theissen v. Guatemala. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of July 3, 2004. Series C No. 108, para. 91; Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador, supra note 454, para. 193, and Case of Servellón García et al. v. Honduras, supra note 308, para. 203.

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