This comes as President Peña Nieto faces renewed pressure over the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in September 2014. Multiple reports have pointed to a role by federal authorities and cast doubt on Mexico’s claim the students were killed by a drug gang. On Monday, Antonio Tizapa, father of one of the missing students, broke down in tears as he testified before the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He called for a U.N. special rapporteur to visit Mexico.

Antonio Tizapa: “Nineteen months demanding they be returned, alive, 19 months seeking justice, and we are awaiting a visit to Mexico by the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, to resolve the conflict of 43 families and to find peace, even though we know they are not just 43. They are thousands and thousands.”