More than
half of the 22,000 people missing were disappeared under the current
government of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
According to
new data released on Thursday by the Mexican Network for Children’s
Rights or REDIM disappearances among adolescents increased by 191
percent between 2012 and 2014.
The new
figures, which were obtained through the government’s National
Registry of Missing Persons database, revealed the disturbing trend
that girls between the ages of 15 and 17 are disproportionately
affected by enforced disappearances.
According to
REDIM, seven out of 10 of missing children are girls between the ages
of 15 and 17.
"These
are the highest numbers we have seen for this age group since 2006,”
REDIM President Alicia Vargas stated.
In its
report, REDIM attributed the rise in child disappearances to criminal
organizations involved in human trafficking and the ongoing “war on
drugs” waged between Mexican security forces and drug trafficking
organizations.
According to
official figures, almost 50 percent of the 22,322 disappeared people
in Mexico went missing between 2012 and 2014 under the current
administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
During a
press conference on Thursday, REDIM Executive Director Juan Martín
Pérez also called on the Mexican government to adopt preventative
measures to help curb killings among Mexican youth.
"We are
still far from 2012, which was when violence in our country reached
its peak, but we are still concerned that federal authorities are not
taking preventative measures to address violent killings,” Perez
stated.
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