Click to expand Image Justices Giovanni Azael Figueroa Mejia, Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, Lenia Batres Guadarrama, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, Yasmin Esquivel Mossa, Maria Estela Rios Gonzalez, Irving Espinosa Betanzo, and Sara Irene Herrerias Guerrera pose during the first official session of the Mexican Supreme Court at Supreme Court building on September 10, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. (C) 2025 Jeannette Flores/ObturadorMX/Getty Images ©(Mexico City) – A decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court on September 25, 2025, risks undermining meaningful participation by people with disabilities in shaping laws that govern their rights and shape their futures, Human Rights Watch said today. For nearly a decade, the Supreme Court upheld an important precedent that laws adopted without prior consultation with people with disabilities could not stand. The newly constituted Supreme Court which began its work in September 2025, in a case brought up by the National Commission of Human Rights challenging Law No. “It should consider ways to refine its approach to ensure both consultation and substantive analysis of disability rights in constitutional review.”