Mexico and human rights, a law on forced disappearances is finally on the way but is it enough?

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A protest for 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, in Mexico City in 2015 © Brett Gundlock/Getty Images

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A protest for 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, in Mexico City in 2015 © Brett Gundlock/Getty Images

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A protester holding a coffin with three skulls symbolising the death of justice, democracy and freedom with a sign saying “It was the state” takes part in a protest in Mexico City in 2015 © Brett Gundlock/Getty Images

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A young woman with blood painted on her face at a protest for 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa Normal School, in Mexico City in 2015 © Brett Gundlock/Getty Images

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As members of the Third National Brigade for Missing Persons accompanied by Voices United for Sinaloa locate pieces of human bone in the vicinity of El Potrero de Sataya, in the state of Sinaloa, official forensic medical examiners and other authorities join the investigation, in 2016 © Rashide Frías

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As members of the Third National Brigade for Missing Persons accompanied by Voices United for Sinaloa locate pieces of human bone in the vicinity of El Potrero de Sataya, in the state of Sinaloa, official forensic medical examiners and other authorities join the investigation, in 2016 © Rashide Frías

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A protester with their mouth symbolically tied with a ribbon saying justice and holding a sign saying, “I’m missing 43 sons, 43 brothers, 43 nephews, 43 colleagues, 43 cousins, 43 students, 43 friends, 43 fathers, 43 future teachers,” takes part in a protest in Mexico City in 2015 ©Mario Muñoz/BDRphotography