The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) rejected the conclusions of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding Mexico. It stated that its decision to request the UN Secretary-General to urgently refer the Mexican case to the General Assembly is based on a biased, contradictory, and ahistorical reading without an international perspective. In a statement, the CNDH asserted that the committee based its decision on requests from NGOs and family collectives, and questioned in particular that it had privileged, in its view, the positions of organizations like Centro Prodh over the institutional, financial, and budgetary efforts deployed by the Mexican state in the last seven years. The body also added that before such an intervention, the national instances provided for in the international convention should have been exhausted first, and accused the CED of ignoring articles 30 and 31 of the treaty, which relate to the conditions for its intervention. The commission also defended its actions by recalling that since 2023 it has warned about the partisan use of the figures of disappeared persons and that in the current administration it has issued 14 recommendations for enforced disappearances on facts from previous years and another five for recent cases, with files covering from 1958 to 2022 in states such as Morelos, Sinaloa, Durango, Guerrero, and Puebla. Similarly, it rejected the proposal for technical cooperation, specialized assistance, financial support, and a special clarification mechanism, considering that it reproduces external formulas that, in its opinion, did not previously improve the human rights situation in the country. It also attacked NGOs that, it said, profit from and politicize the issue. The Mexican government had already described the CED report as 'biased' and 'lacking juridical rigor', while Amnesty International celebrated the committee's decision, called for accepting international cooperation, and warned that the crisis affects more than 132,000 families.
