Countries: Mexico
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access. The high court ordered that abortion be removed from the federal penal code. The ruling will require the federal public health service and all federal health institutions to offer abortion to anyone who requests it. 'No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion,' the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials GIRE, said in a statement" (par. 1-3). "Some 20...more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"'Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!' Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a 'big step' toward gender equality (par. 6). The National Institue for WOmen is a government orginization looking at issues regardin women (IME - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"Celebration of the ruling soon spilled out onto social media. 'Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!' Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a 'big step' toward gender equality. Sen. Olga Sánchez Cordero, a former Supreme Court justice, applauded the ruling, saying on X that it represented an advance toward 'a more just society in which the rights of all are respected.' She called on Mexico’s Congress to pass legislation in response. But others in the highly religious country decried the decision. Irma Barrientos, director of the...more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"In Mexico, about 67 percent of single-mother households don’t receive child support. Even though the right to receive these payments is protected by federal law, the power to determine what’s owed and enforce those transactions falls on the nation’s court system. Discretion belongs to judges, unlike countries with government bodies solely dedicated to child support oversight like the United States’ Office of Child Support Enforcement. The backlog of cases and high costs of legal fees mean court proceedings often take too long and grow too expensive for many single-parent households to pursue. Debtors can regularly evade child support payments without consequence, which further enables a culture of shame, cyclical poverty...more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

"In the state where she lives, about 20 percent of residents experience moderate poverty and women make up only 39 percent of the workforce" (para 8).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"In July 2021, more than 300 women and their children gathered under clotheslines strung across Oaxaca’s Santo Domingo Square, the threads weighed down with photographs of wanted men, plastered with accusations: 'DEUDOR DE PENSIÓN ALIMENTICIA' (child support debtor). Some women penned their children’s father’s full name, job title and the amount of pesos they’d left outstanding. Each poster represented a story of paternal absence enabled by a culture with few avenues to offer reprimand, a fact that fueled Diana Luz Vázquez to organize the 'Debtors Clothesline' protest in the first place" (para 1-2). "The first protest in Oaxaca was meant as a last-ditch effort to bring attention to that bill....more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: SMES-DATA-2

"Only about half of single mothers in Mexico are employed and make up to 20 percent less than their male counterparts. Single mothers who are informally employed — as domestic workers, for example — can’t access social security or health benefits" (para 9).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: CUST-LAW-1

"Civil codes from the 19th century established a man as a father only through marriage or if he chose to formally recognize his child either with public displays or financial support" (para 12).

Countries: Colombia, Cuba, Guyana, Mexico, Uruguay
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Mexico’s supreme court recently ruled that state laws prohibiting abortion are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights, but despite the region’s green wave movement, the only other Latin American countries where elective abortion is legal are Colombia, Cuba, Guyana and Uruguay" (para 21).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: UVAW-PRACTICE-1

"In 2021, more than 40 percent of women over 15 had experienced some form of violence in their childhood, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)" (para 5).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1

"Impunity for homicide is around 94 percent, confirmed a study by the think-tank Mexico Evalua in 2021" (para 12).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"Women have to be wary of police in Mexico; a government study released in 2022 found that the majority of women who are detained by the police have been abused, a third of them sexually" (para 12).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"She was waiting to get an order, when a fellow repartidor pulled up alongside and threw chlorine at her. 'I felt it burning against my clothes,' Augustin says. It narrowly missed touching her skin directly. Augustin, 23, has no doubts why this violent attack happened – it was another example of the misogynistic aggression that female delivery drivers, especially non-Mexicans, face every day from colleagues, customers and the restaurant staff from whom they collect the food" (para 2-3). "She rarely responds and did not consider reporting her attacker because she believed nothing would be done" (para 5).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"Other drivers are known to have been asked for sexual favours by the police to resolve alleged traffic infractions. So it is no wonder so few are prepared to make official complaints to the authorities. 'There is no culture of reporting to the police here in Mexico, because we know that the justice system doesn’t work' says Sergio Guerrero, Unta’s general secretary" (para 10).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: LBHO-DATA-1

"Sen. Olga Sánchez Cordero, a former Supreme Court justice, applauded the ruling, saying on X that it represented an advance toward 'a more just society in which the rights of all are respected'" (para 7).