In Mexico, parents of the 43 students who disappeared in September 2014 protested outside the Foreign Ministry Thursday, demanding experts from the Inter-American Human Rights Commission return to Mexico and reopen their investigation. The experts have accused the Mexican government of stonewalling their probe. Meanwhile, in New York City, Antonio Tizapa, father of one of the missing students, met with the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, and urged her to investigate his son’s disappearance. Antonio Tizapa spoke out after the meeting.

Antonio Tizapa: “I asked the rapporteur about the invitation we proposed last year, and she said she wrote to the Mexican government asking to be invited to investigate, but she didn’t receive an answer. Now she’s going to ask again, and we hope that she will get an answer. We hope the Mexican government will open its doors to her. And we especially hope she goes to Ayotzinapa to see what the Mexican government has done to us.”