According to data from the Interior Ministry’s National Registry of Missing People, Mexico has officially registered over 100,000 people as missing or disappeared.

From 1964 until the present, the government has reported more than 100,023 missing people, with more than 24,700 being women and more than 74,700 being men. The gender of 516 individuals is unknown.

 According to the data, the amount has climbed by more than 20,000 individuals in the last two years alone, prompting indignation and urgent calls for better search and rescue operations.

 On May 10, families of missing loved ones protested in Mexico City.

According to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, just 35 of the known disappearances have resulted in the conviction of the offenders.

“No effort should be spared to put an end to these human rights violations and abuses of extraordinary breadth, and to vindicate victims’ rights to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition,” said Bachelet.

Marlene Harbig of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spoke on the trauma experienced by families of missing people.

“The first few hours are the most important, when someone disappears, their relatives have the right to know what has happened,” said Harbig in a news release. “Knowing the fate of disappeared persons is primarily a humanitarian act.”

Despite the figures, Bachelet praised the Mexican government, naming Mexico the first country to enable the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to visit and engage with authorities in 13 Mexican states.

Both the ICRC and the UN have appealed for family members to be permitted to collaborate with government officials in the search for their loved ones.

According to a statement to the media, Michele Bachelet requested the government “to place the families of those who have disappeared at the center of their efforts, and to make the necessary resources available for investigations and searches to be effective.”

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