As part of the violence faced by women in Mexico, the disappearance of 23,529 women and girls across the country from 1964 to 2021 can currently be counted, of which about 50% were between 14 and 24 years old. The vast majority of disappearances occurred from 2007 to date.
According to data from the National Registry of Disappeared and Non-Localized Persons (RNPDNO) of the Ministry of the Interior, the numbers of missing persons already exceed 95,148 cases in Mexico, with another 9,192 who were reported missing, and were found dead.
In Edomex, Jalisco and Tamaulipas is where the most missing women are counted.
In this context, the UN Committee against Forced Disappearance (CED) highlighted the notable increase in the number of disappearances of children, adolescents and women, a trend that worsened during the Covid pandemic -19.
At the end of its visit to our country, the committee said it regretted having found that a generalized situation of disappearances persists in much of the territory, in the face of which, as they have pointed out since 2015, “impunity and violence prevail. revictimization ”.
The experts also highlighted that disappearances are not only a phenomenon of the past. On the contrary, they regretted finding that it still persists.
“In these two weeks, the people with whom we spoke gave us the image of a society overcome by the phenomenon of disappearances, systemic impunity and its impotence in the face of the inaction of some authorities”, were part of its first conclusions on the report your visit.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx