Overview

• Mexico’s official registry reports more than 131,000 people missing, while civil monitors cite about 72,000 unidentified bodies, underscoring a severe forensic backlog.
• The UN human-rights office in Mexico urges the new judiciary to remove procedural barriers, expand the amparo buscador, and strengthen judicial oversight of investigations and detentions.
• Reporters Without Borders and Propuesta Cívica file complaints before the UN Human Rights Committee over the disappearances of journalists María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe and José Antonio García Apac.
• The Mexico City human-rights commission finds structural failures in the local prosecutor’s office that hinder searches and identification, detailing cases with misclassification and prolonged delays.
• Families and collectives mark the day with nationwide actions, including 200 pairs of shoes displayed in Culiacán, as community ‘buzones de paz’ report 350 anonymous tips leading to seven sets of remains and one person found alive.