Mexico recorded 7,399 missing persons cases in the first half of 2025, marking a nearly 18% increase from the same period ...

Mexico has reported 155 femicides - the murder of women because of their gender - in the first two months of this year, according to federal crime statistics. Nearly 25,000 more women are missing ...

Last month, the disappearance of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old law student, sparked fresh outrage amid a spate of disappearances of women in Nuevo Leon’s capital, Monterrey.

Mexico’s efforts to address the large number of cases of enforced disappearances and abductions throughout the country in recent years have been marred by inexplicable delays and contradictory ...

On the 13th day of searching for his missing daughter, Mario Escobar stood outside a gas station in the choking heat, clutching flyers with her photo and the vestiges of a desperate, lingering hope.

Mexico: Coronavirus pandemic ‘hasn’t stopped the disappearances’ Families of Mexico’s disappeared say their searches have been derailed by COVID-19 lockdowns, proposed government cuts.

MEXICO CITY The number of unsolved disappearances in Mexico constitutes a national scandal and a human rights crisis, Amnesty International said Tuesday, citing what it called a systematic failure ...

The nearly 250 disappearances documented in the report do not represent all of the cases in Mexico since 2007. On the contrary, official statistics leave little doubt that there are thousands more.

These figures are based on a revised system engineered by Mexico’s National Public Security Secretariat, according to Proceso. In total, 40 percent of the 23,272 disappearances — or 9,384 — that ...

MEXICO CITY — The disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 was a “crime of the state” involving every layer of government, an official inquiry reported on Thursday, in the most profound ...

Three members of Mexico’s army have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, the government announced Thursday.

MEXICO CITY — The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances said Friday there is an “almost total, structural” lack of punishment in Mexico for the crime of abducting and ...