Mexico

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Overview

OHCHR-Mexico promotes and protects human rights, through the monitoring of human rights situations, technical assistance and advisory services to the Mexican State, collaboration with civil society and victims’ organizations, and the dissemination of information on human rights.

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News & Statements

Latest news

30 Sep 2026

Multiple Mechanisms

Mexico: Women searchers for disappeared persons face brutal violence while world endeavours to recognise them, warn UN experts

18 Jul 2026

Special Procedures

FIFA World Cup: Families of disappeared persons must be able to speak out and demonstrate freely, say UN experts

01 Jul 2026

Special Procedures

Mexico: UN experts condemn murder of Afro-Mexican activist, call for prompt investigation

20 May 2026

Special Procedures

Mexico: Urgent structural reforms needed to settle historical debt to Afro-Mexican peoples, UN experts say

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Latest statements & messages

15 Jun 2026

Multiple Mechanisms

Türk says ultimate trajectory for human rights is larger freedom

22 Apr 2026

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

“My Office will continue, as always, at the disposal of everyone in Mexico,” says Türk concluding his visit to the country

17 May 2022

Multiple Mechanisms

Mexico: Dark landmark of 100,000 disappearances reflects pattern of impunity, UN experts warn

07 Mar 2022

Multiple Mechanisms

Global Update: Bachelet urges inclusion to combat "sharply escalating misery and fear"

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Featured Stories

16 October 2026 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

“We Are Still Here”: Families of the disappeared shape a new Global Alliance initiative

A bank account frozen, an identity card refused, a form with no honest answer. Twenty years after the adoption of the Convention against enforced disappearance, three women from Mexico, Thailand and Pakistan describe the lives that must go on while their loved one was disappeared — and the UN initiative built to change how institutions treat them.
18 September 2026 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Small wings for hope and kindness: Our partnership with a children’s museum in Mexico

The monarch butterfly migrates to survive and enriches everything in its path. With that metaphor, a series of workshops and an exhibition championed by UN Human Rights in Mexico invited over 3,200 children to imagine how small acts of kindness can build more welcoming communities.
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Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/63/74/Add.2: Visit to Mexico - Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - Advance unedited version

A/HRC/63/27/Add.1: Visit to Mexico - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes

A/HRC/57/44/Add.1: Visit to Mexico - Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

A/HRC/53/35/Add.2: Visit to Mexico- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

A/HRC/37/51/Add.2: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on his mission to Mexico - Note by the Secretariat

A/HRC/36/45/Add.2: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation on his mission to Mexico - Note by the Secretariat

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

CEDAW/C/MEX/CO/10: Concluding observations on the tenth periodic report of Mexico

CMW/C/MEX/CO/4: Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Mexico

CED/C/MEX/OAI/2: Concluding observations on the additional information submitted by Mexico under article 29 (4) of the Convention

Human Rights Committee: Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Mexico - Advance unedited version

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Concluding observations on the combined eighteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of Mexico

Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Mexico

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

External Resources

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.

Americas Section
Tel. + 41 22 917 92 48

Field

OHCHR - Mexico
Alejandro Dumas 165, Colonia Polanco,
Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, CP 11560,
México, D.F


Email: oacnudh@ohchr.org
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