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A United Nations commission reported Friday that disappearances were widespread in Mexico and that the authorities were often involved, most notoriously in the case of 43 students who vanished in the fall at what prosecutors say were the hands of the local police. Criticizing what it called a failure to prevent and punish “enforced disappearances,” which involve kidnappings carried out or permitted by officials, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances urged Mexico to quickly pass a law specifically establishing that as a crime. “The information received by the committee shows a context of generalized disappearances in a great part of the country, many of which could qualify as enforced disappearances,” the commission said. There was no immediate response from the Mexican government, which presented its report to the committee in Geneva last week and said passing laws on enforced disappearances was a priority. Mexico acknowledges that more than 23,000 people are considered either “disappeared” or of unknown whereabouts, although it has no specific numbers on forced disappearances. A United Nations commission reported Friday that disappearances were widespread in Mexico and that the authorities were often involved, most notoriously in the case of 43 students who vanished in the fall at what prosecutors say were the hands of the local police. Criticizing what it called a failure to prevent and punish “enforced disappearances,” which involve kidnappings carried out or permitted by officials, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances urged Mexico to pass a law specifically establishing that as a crime. There was no immediate response from the government, which presented its report to the committee last week and said passing laws on enforced disappearances was a priority. Mexico acknowledges that more than 23,000 people are considered either “disappeared” or of unknown whereabouts, although it has no specific numbers on forced disappearances.