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MEXICO - CEDAW COMMITTEE CONCLUDING
OBSERVATIONS
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CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF MEXICO REPORT REVIEW by UN CEDAW Committee - 52nd
Session - 2012:
Excerpts:
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
*11......The Committee is concerned
that women and girls have been subjected to increasing levels and different
types of gender-based violence, such as domestic violence, forced
disappearances, torture, and murders, especially femicide by state actors,
including law enforcement officials and the security forces, as well as by
non-state actors such as organized crime groups.
EDUCATION
*26. While taking note of the
programme PROMAJOVEN, which provides basic
education grants to pregnant
teenagers and young mothers, the Committee is concerned that pregnant teenage
girls are stigmatized and forced to drop out of school. It regrets that the
contents of the curricula on sexual and reproductive health and rights have
been reduced. It is also concerned about the disparities in illiteracy rates
between women living in urban areas (5.3%) and women living in rural areas
(18.2%).....
EMPLOYMENT
*28. The Committee is concerned at
the persistent discriminatory practices against women in the field of
employment, such as the requirement of pregnancy tests to obtain or maintain
employment.....The Committee is also concerned about the considerable pay
differentials between men and women and that 56.6% of the female working
population is engaged in the informal labour sector and hence without access to
social security benefits......
HEALTH
*30. Although the Committee notes
the establishment of the Observatory of Maternal Mortality, it is concerned,
however, that the current maternal mortality rate, 53.5 deaths per 100,000 live
births (2010) is far from the proposed MDG target for 2015 of 22.2 deaths per
100,000 live births.....
INDIGENOUS RURAL WOMEN
*34. The Committee notes that the
CEDAW Convention has been translated into ten indigenous languages. It notes as
well the creation of Indigenous Women's Centres.....However, it remains
concerned at the high levels of poverty, illiteracy and multiple forms of
discrimination against indigenous rural women, in particular in Chiapas,
Guerrero and Oaxaca. It is also concerned about harmful cultural practices
within the indigenous legal system which are based on gender stereotyped roles
for men and women such as "bride price," and which perpetuate
discrimination against indigenous women and girls. It is further concerned at
the lack of indigenous rural women's access to land, property and justice. It
is also concerned at information indicating that the State party's public
security policy against organized crime has negatively impacted indigenous
rural women, who have since been subjected to higher levels of violence,
including femicide by security forces.
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND
JOURNALISTS
*24. The Committee expresses its
deep concern about the risks women human rights defenders and journalists face
in the exercise of their professional activities in the State party.....It is
concerned at information indicating they they are subjected to different
manifestations of violence, such as threats and defamation campaigns, sexual
abuse, harassment and femicide.....
