By The Opinion
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, rejected this Monday the recent report of the UN Committee against Forced Disappearances (CED)by ensuring that the documentation sent by the country was not taken into account by the experts of the international organization.
“Several issues were not considered by this commission. That is why the document was rejected”said the president in her daily press conference, in her first public statement since the publication of the CED report, in which she defended her commitment to the crisis of missing persons.
In this sense, Sheinbaum indicated that the committee’s analysis is not “very accurate” because they “extrapolate” data from four states from 2009 to 2017 to the current situation at the national level.
The president pointed out that the CED is not a UN committee, but is “linked to it”and highlighted that his analysis “is outside” the characterization of the figure of forced disappearance of the international organization.
In addition, he explained that the Mexican Executive sent previous documentation to the CED about the country’s work in this matter since 2019 or the joint work with the search groups, issues that “were not taken into account” in this report.
“This has nothing to do with the work we do with groups, the solidarity we have with mothers and fathers (…) The work we are doing to eradicate this abominable crime of disappearance in our country linked mainly to organized crime has nothing to do with the vision of the governments of the Fourth Transformation (their political movement),” he noted.
He recalled that the committee will send its report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.with whom they will establish a “close relationship” so that “they know what is being done and for what reasons we do not agree” with the document.
The report of the UN committee points out that the North American country has more urgent actions for forced disappearance than any other nation in the world, while warning that it has registered a significant rebound in recent months.
Furthermore, it highlights that Mexico accumulates 819 urgent actions between 2012 and February 2026 —38% of the global total— and only in the five most recent months (September 2025 to February 2026) it added 40 new applications, more than a third of the global total for the period.
The Mexican Government confirmed weeks ago that there are more than 130,000 missing people in the country, by presenting an updated report from the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons.
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