Missing People Situation in Mexico Is Critical, Says United Nations Commissioner teleSUR
go to original August 30, 2014

A protest against the forced disappearances in Mexico City. (EFE)

More than 20,000 people have disappeared in Mexico. Almost half of them went missing since the beginning of the term of Mexico's current President Enrique Peña Nieto.

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday that Mexico is experiencing "a critical situation" in the cases of disappeared people.

In a press release, the office said that the families of missing people deserve justice, truth, reparation of damages, and added that it will continue to support their protests and justice claims.

On August 21, Mexican Government said that they were 22,322 missing people in the country. Forty-four percent of them, disappeared during the government of Mexico’s current President, Enrique Peña Nieto.

In 2012, Mexican Congress approved a bill that forced the government to make a database of missing or disappeared people in the country, in order to make easier the legal procedure of each case.

August 30 is the International Day of Enforced Disappearances. This day was inaugurated by the UN to commemorate all of the victims of forced disappearances.

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