Mexico Rejects UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances Report for Omitting Progress Since 2018

• Mexico rejects the Committee's report as biased and dismissive of the observations, analysis, and updates submitted by the Mexican Government. Those submissions show that the Committee's arguments are inconsistent with both its own definition of enforced disappearance and Mexico's institutional advances since 2019, and particularly since 2025.
• The Convention procedure was designed for cases in which enforced disappearances are committed in a widespread and systematic manner by State agents, and authorities refuse to act or cooperate. That does not reflect the reality of today's Mexico, which has undertaken a structural transformation in this area.

The report primarily addresses events from 2009 to 2017 - under the administrations of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto - and is limited to four states. The Committee's decision is nonetheless partial and biased. It fails to account for the institutional efforts presented on March 27, and Mexico regrets that the Committee declined to consider the updated information before issuing its ruling.

In paragraphs 117 and 118 of its decision, the Committee itself acknowledges that there are no substantiated indications of a federal policy to carry out widespread or systematic attacks against the civilian population, whether through action or omission. These findings reflect the country's current situation, which differs from earlier periods.

The Committee's arguments also lack legal rigor, and its premises are flimsy - including its interpretation of the link to the Rome Statute. This is compounded by conflicts of interest among some of its members; specifically, there is evidence that at least one worked for organizations that have filed complaints against Mexico.

The Mexican Government does not tolerate, permit, or order enforced disappearances. This administration has pursued legislative and institutional reform, in coordination with families' collectives, to address this scourge.

As the result of a participatory process involving families, substantial amendments to the law were approved in July 2025. The Committee failed to adequately consider the following tools and obligations:

1. The National Missing Persons Search Alert
2. The obligation to open an investigation file upon the first report
3. The National Investigation File Database
4. The Single Identity Platform
5. The obligation to establish specialized state prosecutors' offices
6. Strengthening the National Forensic Database
7. Strengthening the National Search Commission with specialists and equipment
8. The obligation to maintain official records with minimum identification data
9. Guaranteed coordination among search commissions, state prosecutors' offices, and the Attorney General's Office (FGR)
10. The inclusion of victims' commissions in the National Search System

As the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has recognized, Mexico maintains a policy of day-to-day cooperation with international and regional systems, a fact valued by various agencies.

Mexico is open to international technical cooperation, but not on the basis of premises that do not reflect its current reality.

We reaffirm this government's absolute commitment to the eradication of enforced disappearances, the strengthening of search and identification efforts, and the guarantee of truth and justice for victims and their families, as a central pillar of the national transformation.