The CNDH rejects the consideration of the crisis of missing persons at the UN General Assembly.

MEXICO CITY (apro) .- The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) rejected the possibility that the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) review the situation in Mexico and submit it to the General Assembly, through its Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.

Following the conclusion of the 29th regular session of the CED in Geneva, where the case of Mexico was reviewed in closed session as part of the application of Article 34, which empowers the treaty body to determine whether a situation involving more than 133,000 missing persons is part of a widespread and systematic situation, the CNDH, chaired by Rosario Piedra Ibarra, issued a statement repudiating "the idea that the answer to Mexico's problems is the intervention of foreign organizations."

In the document, which refers to the shadow report submitted to the CED by relatives of victims of disappearances, civil society organizations, academics, and activists, the organization noted that the UN is facing "enormous problems in terms of funding, attention to climate change and armed conflicts, and peacebuilding, as demonstrated by the inability of world powers to stop the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza," and to direct its efforts toward the disappearances in Mexico.

"If the international community, and the UN in particular, are going to focus their attention, it should not be to highlight the case of a sovereign country that in recent years has demonstrated that it can, with the democratic support of the majority of its people, chart its own path toward a more egalitarian, just society with rights for all, not just a select few," the CNDH declared.

In the document, the organization downplays the conclusion reached by the ten members of the CED, experts selected by representatives of the signatory states of the treaty against enforced disappearances and who are part of the UN on the situation of disappearances in Mexico, stating that "their opinion does not represent the opinion of the international community and may be subject to debate and counterarguments."

In what it described as an explanation so that "the people have greater clarity" about what the activation of Article 34 of the CED regulations means, the organization chaired by Piedra Ibarra noted that this measure, announced in April of this year, "could bring political pressure on our country from international perspectives that are inconsistent with reality or national needs."

According to the CNDH, the CED's arguments for declaring the beginning of the procedure "are related to events and government actions prior to 2019," specifically regarding "inadequate security policies that prevailed during the administrations of Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, whose administration was marked by the so-called 'war on drugs,' which was the facilitating context for the unprecedented rise in disappearances in Mexico in recent years."

By omitting that the policy of militarizing public security carried out by Calderón was accentuated under Andrés Manuel López Obrador and continues under Claudia Sheinbaum, the CNDH pointed out that the situation in states such as Veracruz, Colima, and Nayarit, mentioned as emblematic in the shadow report submitted to the CED, "are strongly linked to the state governments of PRI members with damaged political reputations, some of whom have been convicted of serious crimes."

Complaining that the CED fails to mention the work of the CNDH, the organization defended the governments of the Fourth Transformation, arguing that "forced disappearances are not the result of state policy, as was the case in the past, during the so-called 'war on drugs' and during the period of political violence known as the 'dirty war.'"

The agency reported that between 2009 and 2025, it registered 396 cases of complaints of forced or involuntary disappearance of persons, with 69.6% of the cases, 272 cases, accumulating between 2009 and 2011, of which 102 correspond to 2011.

According to the CNDH, between 2020 and 2025, during the 4T governments, "46 cases were filed, representing 11.6% of all complaints between 2009 and 2025."

The organization questioned that "this downward trend is not even considered by the CED," information that can be consulted on the CNDH website, which warns that "of the 396 files mentioned, 56.8% were opened for events that occurred in five states: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Michoacán, Chihuahua and Coahuila," and that the majority of the cases occurred between 2009 and 2012, "in the midst of the failed security strategy during the Calderon administration."

Noting that during Rosario Piedra Ibarra's administration, 21 recommendations were issued for forced disappearances "of current cases and others that were archived and not addressed," the agency failed to mention that according to official figures from the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDNO), there are 133,773 missing and unlocated people as of October 2, and a forensic crisis of more than 72 unidentified bodies under the custody of prosecutors.

In its statement, the CNDH of Rosario Piedra insists on rejecting international scrutiny.

"The National Commission categorically disagrees with the media's stances that ignore the work of various Mexican state agencies in recent years and believe that the intervention of foreign agents is the appropriate course of action. This National Commission is clear that it is up to all of us in Mexico to identify national problems and chart paths between authorities, human rights protection bodies, and the people," the statement concludes.