[20201021]IF11669_墨西哥的人权挑战：解决强迫失踪问题.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov October 21, 2020Human Rights Challenges in Mexico: Addressing Enforced DisappearancesMexico faces significant human rights concerns amidst record violence related to drug trafficking and organized crime. Since 2006, the government estimates that 275,000 people have been killed and another 71,678 have disappeared. In some cases, referred to as “enforced disappearances,” those disappearances have involved the complicity of state forces. Congress has taken steps to address the general human rights situation in Mexico, as well as the specific issue of enforced disappearances, through foreign assistance and conditions on that assistance, hearings, and letters to Mexican and U.S. Administrations. Background The United Nations (U.N.) International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance defines the term enforced disappearance to mean the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fat