Overview
- REDIM reports 10,684 disappearance filings for children and adolescents in 2025, with about 2,850 still unlocated, prompting the UN committee’s urgent Article 34 procedure.
- Between January and November 2025, 1,991 minors were homicide victims, an 11.5% decrease versus 2024 that REDIM cautions does not signal safety for children.
- Feminicides of girls and adolescents totaled 58 in 2025, with 884 documented since 2015 and a concentration of cases in the State of Mexico, Veracruz and Jalisco.
- At least 565 children and adolescents were killed with firearms in 2025, as the group warns about the normalization of armed violence in daily life.
- Despite a nominal rise to 1.1 trillion pesos for 2026, spending on childhood falls to 10.8% of the federal budget, and REDIM urges stronger SIPINNA leadership and child-centered policy decisions.