Overview

• Family collectives and civil-society organizations presented a detailed dossier to the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances in Geneva under the Article 34 special procedure, alleging generalized or systematic disappearances and state collusion.
• The filing cites more than 127,000 people registered as missing, over 72,000 unidentified deceased in forensic services since 2006, 3,516 clandestine graves through September 2024, and only 373 convictions for disappearance from 2017 to January 2025.
• Groups report the pace of disappearances rose from 26 per day in 2024 to more than 45 per day in the first half of 2025, calling for the UN to transmit evidence to the International Criminal Court for a crimes-against-humanity preliminary inquiry.
• The UN committee’s recommendations include a national prevention policy, a phased withdrawal of the armed forces from public security, exhaustive investigations, and harmonized genetic databases to accelerate identifications.
• Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission denies manipulating disappearance figures, rejects an international clarification mechanism, and argues recent cases reflect regional criminal dynamics rather than a state policy, while noting many cited data predate 2019.