Thousands of people have held protests across Mexico to highlight the country's many enforced disappearances and demand more action by officials to tackle them.
Relatives and friends of missing people, as well as human rights activists, marched through the streets of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Córdoba and other cities calling for justice and urged the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum to help find their missing loved ones.
More than 130,000 people have been reported as missing in Mexico. Almost all the disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his war on drugs.
In many cases, those disappeared have been forcibly recruited into the drug cartels – or murdered for resisting.
While drug cartels and organised crime groups are the main perpetrators, security forces are also blamed for deaths and disappearances.
The widespread demonstrations across various cities illustrated the extent to which the issue affects communities across Mexico.
From Oaxaca to Sonora and Durango, activists and family members carried placards with images of their missing loved ones, calling for authorities to do more.
In Mexico City, the protests caused significant traffic disruption, as demonstrators marched down the main thoroughfare.
Many families have formed buscadores groups, conducting searches in rural areas following leads on possible mass graves from the cartels, placing them in personal danger.
The recent discovery of a suspected drug cartel site led to the disappearance of several buscadores involved.
The United Nations has labeled the situation a human tragedy of enormous proportions, with the number of disappearances in Mexico surpassing the historical tolls from civil conflicts in other Latin American countries.
