Overview
- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report with 40 recommendations that labels disappearances in Mexico a grave human rights crisis.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed coordination with the commission, noted areas of disagreement, and directed Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez to meet families and give periodic public updates.
- A senior Foreign Affairs official, Enrique Ochoa, said the government will comply with the recommendations and called addressing disappearances a top priority.
- The report urges urgent fixes to the forensic emergency, citing more than 70,000 unidentified bodies, limited results from national identification mechanisms, and a lack of shared DNA data across states that forces families to give samples in multiple places.
- CIDH warns that impunity in disappearance cases is near 99 percent, attributes most cases to organized crime, and holds the state responsible for failures in prevention, searches, investigations, identification, and support for victims.