UN committee will investigate 'widespread and systemic' enforced disappearances in Mexico

The Senate of the Republic approved a statement calling for the dismissal of Olivier Frouville, president of the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED), after the body opened a procedure to analyze the situation in Mexico. Morena's majority of legislators approved the motion, on the grounds that disappearances in Mexico are not the responsibility of the State. On April 8, CED activated the procedure under Article 34 of the Internatio…

Mexico City.- The president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, strongly questioned the president of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, Olivier de Frouville, for having maintained that enforced disappearance is carried out in Mexico "in a general or systematic manner" At the opening of the session, the Brown legislator announced that he will turn to the highest United Nations bodies to demand the sanction corresponding to the said…

The UN has told Mexico something that collectives, researchers and journalists have already warned: disappearances in the country are “systematic and widespread.” The numbers (there are more than 127,000 people unlocated) and also the United Nations itself, which had warned in 2015, in 2018 and 2022. However, Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration has reacted with surprise, turning against the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the one in charge …

UN committee will investigate 'widespread and systemic' enforced disappearances in Mexico

The United Nations’ Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) said Friday that it would seek additional information from the Mexican government after receiving information that “seems to indicate” that enforced disappearances is a “widespread and systematic practice” in Mexico. The announcement drew a pointed response from the Mexican government, which said in a statement that it “rejects the statements of the committee members regarding the al…

Durango is among the states with the lowest number of disappearances in Mexico, with a record of a thousand missing persons, which places the state in the eighth place with the lowest number of disappearances nationwide. This was pointed out by the head of the Attorney General's Office of Durango, Sonia Yadira de la Garza Fragoso, who explained that, of the cases recorded, about 300 correspond to people whose disappearance is the responsibility …

By common sense writing. The head of the National Search Commission (CNB), Teresa Guadalupe Reyes Sahagún, rejected this Tuesday the possibility of resigning her post, despite the requests of groups that demand that the body be headed by a person with experience in disappearances, sensitivity and specialized training. Since her appointment in 2023, civil organizations have questioned her appointment because she considers that she does not have t…