2.2 Is domestic violence identified in national law as a human right (noting that at a European level protection from domestic violence has not been explicitly identified as a human right but is indirectly captured by the other provisions)?
Yes.
2.3 Has your country signed and ratified the conventions?
Yes, Mexico ratified the 1979 CEDAW on 23 March 1981.
2.4 If it has ratified the Maputo Protocol, how has it been implemented into national law (African Union member states only)?
N/A
2.5 If it has ratified the 1979 Convention (CEDAW), how has the recommendations part of General Comment No. 35 been implemented into national law?
It has been implemented through the following legislation:
- General Act on Enforced Disappearances, Disappearances Committed by Individuals and the National Missing Persons Search System
- National Planning Act, amended in 2018, which promotes gender equality and prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex
- General Act on Preventing, Investigating and Punishing Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment in 2017
- Amendments to the Federal Act on Preventing and Eliminating Discrimination, including provisions prohibiting misogyny, homophobia and racial discrimination in 2014, as well as hate speech, including expressions of sexism, in 2018
- Amendments to the General Act on Women's Access to a Life Free from Violence, including a provision criminalizing femicide, in 2016
- Amendments to the Mexican Constitution (Article 41) to provide for parity in legislative elections at the federal and local levels in 2014
- General Act on the Rights of Girls, Boys and Adolescents, which includes provisions on equal rights to education, health and participation for girls and boys, in 2014
- Telecommunications and Broadcasting Act, which includes nine articles that promote gender equality in different areas, in 2014
- National program for equal opportunities and nondiscrimination against women, covering the period 2013-2018
- National program for equality and nondiscrimination, covering the period 2014-2018
- National program on human rights, covering the period 2014-2018
- Comprehensive program to prevent, address, punish and eradicate violence against women, covering the period 2014-2018
- National program for the advancement and inclusion of persons with disabilities, covering the period 2014-2018
- Agreement on gender equality and tackling violence against women in the media, signed in 2016
- National strategy for the prevention of adolescent pregnancy, implemented in 2015