Countries: Mexico
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"Feminist groups, which have supported Ruiz’s [woman sentenced to prison for killing her rapist] defense, angrily protested, saying the ruling was criminalizing survivors of sexual violence while protecting perpetrators in a country with high levels of gender-based violence and femicides. Protesters in Mexico City carried signs reading 'Defending my life isn’t a crime'" (para 3). "Nezahualcoyotl, one of the 11 municipalities in Mexico State, a state that borders Mexico City on three sides and continues to have posted alerts warning women about femicides and the forced disappearances of women" (para 10).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

""Feminist groups, which have supported Ruiz’s [woman sentenced to prison for killing her rapist] defense, angrily protested, saying the ruling was criminalizing survivors of sexual violence while protecting perpetrators in a country with high levels of gender-based violence and femicides. Protesters in Mexico City carried signs reading 'Defending my life isn’t a crime'" (para 3). "In 2022, the Mexican government registered a total of 3,754 women — an average of 10 a day — who were slain, a significant jump from the year before. Only a third were investigated as femicides" (para 17).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense.” It also ordered Ruiz to pay more than $16,000 in reparations to the family of her attacker" (para 2). "Despite Ruiz [an assault survivor] telling police she had been raped, a forensic exam was never done, a crucial step in prosecuting sexual violence cases, Carrera [Ruiz's lawyer] said. Instead, an officer responded that she probably wanted to have sex with the man at first and then changed her mind, the...more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the practice of womb surrogacy. According to the ruling, surrogates are not to receive compensation for their services, limiting the exchange of money to cover expenses related to the pregnancy" (par. 1-2). Surrogate mothers can receive compensation to cover the expenses related to their pregnancy (IME - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: ACR-PRACTICE-1

"Insemination procedures related to womb surrogacy in Mexico are most common in Mexico City, where the bulk of fertility clinics are concentrated, in part because the local government has already regulated the procedure" (par 5). "Womb surrogacy has been denounced by the Catholic Church on the grounds that it runs the risk of treating wombs and babies like commodities" (par. 9).

Countries: Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, El Salvador, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Panama, South Korea, Suriname, Thailand, Venezuela
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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Countries: Mexico
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

Is selling sex criminalised? Sex work is dealt with at a local level by each of the states in Mexico. Some regulate sex work and in other states it is illegal. An example of regulation is provided by the city of Tijuana. Here, sex work is regulated, sex workers must register and undergo mandatory health checks to receive a health card and work legally. If you have a health card you can work outdoors in designated zones or in licensed establishments. If you work in any other way it is illegal and you are criminalised. There are more people working in illegal sex work in Tijuana than legal sex work....more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Mexico ranks as a Tier 2 country (85).

Countries: Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Tunisia, Vanuatu
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Countries: Mexico
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Mexico is 45.7% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Mexico is 73.1 years for men and 78.9 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"14.5 births per 1000 population"

Countries: Mexico
Variables: IAW-LAW-1

"The following have the right to inherit by legitimate succession: I.- The descendants, spouses, ascendants, collateral relatives within the fourth degree and the common-law spouses...(AMENDED, G.O. JUNE 7, 2006)" (178). "The surviving spouse, concurring with descendants, will have the right of a child, if he/she lacks assets or those that he/she has at the death of the author of the succession, do not equal the portion that each child should correspond to" (179). "In the absence of descendants, ascendants and siblings, the spouse will succeed all the goods" (180). The most recent laws noted in the WomanStats Database (since 2000) relating to inheritance are still current as of December 2022...more