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Mexico’s National Search System Opens 2025 Session to Move New Disappearance Law Into Action

Leaders promised a shift to measurable implementation centered on the right to be found.

Overview

  • Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez chaired the session, citing President Claudia Sheinbaum’s directive to strengthen search, location and identification efforts across all levels of government.
  • National Search Commission chief Martha Lidia Pérez Gumecindo proposed reactivating the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, updating the Homologated Search Protocol, and creating a working group with the National Citizen Council to draft the law’s regulation.
  • Officials called for a well-organized National Search Plan with clear indicators and urged state authorities to complete Regional Search Plans through upcoming regional meetings.
  • International and justice entities participated, including ONU-DH representative Humberto Henderson, UNFPA human identification lead Maximilian Murck, and FGR human rights prosecutor Ricardo Sánchez Pérez del Pozo.
  • The CNB committed to continue technical cooperation with UNFPA’s Human Identification Program to strengthen identification capacity.