Backed by the UN human rights office, Mexican and U.S. scientists will audit the registry, while 16,003 people reported missing have been located.
WFP chief Carl Skau singled out Mexico’s school meals, front-of-package labeling and local purchasing, models already being shared with Colombia and Peru.
The team of Héctor Vasconcelos, Mexico’s permanent representative to the UN, clarified that he was not in the General Assembly hall during Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, without specifying whether other delegation members joined the walkout.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on workers’ rights, social programs, constitutional reforms, Ayotzinapa, and the UN.
Speaking for Sheinbaum, the foreign minister said Mexico’s Constitution already embodies the UN Charter and that it is time for a woman to lead the UN.
Sheinbaum questioned a Security Council where five countries hold the veto, and explained why she chose not to attend this year’s General Assembly.
The Franco-Mexican proposal, backed by 120 countries since 2015, would bar the UN’s five permanent members from vetoing action on genocide or war crimes.
Those who seek to subject Mexico to external oversight raise strong suspicions that there are ulterior motives and interests behind the request that they dare not make public.
The Mexican President made her remarks at her daily press conference this morning, one day before the opening of the United Nations’ General Assembly, where the genocide is expected to be the major focus.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean found that from 2021 to 2022 poverty in the country fell 4.4 percent, with extreme poverty dropping by 1.5 points.