Overview
- At the first ordinary session of 2025, federal and state authorities relaunched the National Search System under a recently reformed legal framework to strengthen searches for missing persons.
- Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez cited President Claudia Sheinbaum’s directive to reinforce search, location and identification efforts with a rights-based, gender-informed approach for families.
- CNB chief Martha Lidia Pérez Gumecindo proposed reactivating the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, updating the Homologated Search Protocol, and forming a working group to draft the General Law’s regulation.
- Officials called for regional meetings to finalize Regional Search Plans as inputs for a National Search Program, with clear indicators and a well-organized National Search Plan.
- The session included representatives from the 32 state prosecutors’ offices and federal agencies, with ONU-DH and UNFPA present as the CNB pledged continuity of international cooperation on human identification.