General Law on Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence (2007)
Emerging Action Plan to Guarantee the Integrity, Safety and Life of Women and Girls in Mexico (adopted in 2019, until 2024)
Comprehensive Program to Prevent, Address, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women 2021-2024
Article 259 bis of the Federal Penal Code and Article 13 of the General Law of Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence
Article 265 bis of the Federal Penal Code
Although marriage and divorce are mostly regulated by local laws, and some of them still establishes that women have to wait 300 days to remarry after getting divorced (as well as the less-used Federal Civil Code) the Supreme Court has ruled that such legal provisions are unconstitutional
Without exceptions By June 2020, all 32 states had amended their local legislations (civil codes) to establish that the minimum age of marriage is 18 years old and eliminated legal exceptions that allowed marriage of people under 18. The Federal Civil Code was amended in 2019 in the same regard.
Without exceptions By June 2020, all 32 states had amended their local legislations (civil codes) to establish that the minimum age of marriage is 18 years old and eliminated legal exceptions that allowed marriage of people under 18. The Federal Civil Code was amended in 2019 in the same regard.
National System for the Prevention, Attention, Sanction and Eradication of Violence against Women
Data is collected and published by the prosecutor's offices and Justice Courts.
For the crime incident, SESNSP (published monthly), National Census of State Justice Procurement from INEGI, National Census of Administration of Justice from INEGI collect data from criminal cases initiated in the justice courts.
Number of Centers of Justice for Women
Data is collected by the Government Censuses (National Government Census, Public Security and Penitentiary System, National Census of Municipal Governments and Territorial Demarcations of Mexico City, National Census of State Justice Procurement)
Number of Agencies and/or Prosecutor's Offices of the Public Prosecutor's Offices or Attorney General's Offices:
Specialized in sexual crimes: 91
Specialized in crimes against women: 80
Specialized in domestic violence: 86
Specialized in feminicides: 26
Official data is available (Directory of Women's Justice Centers and Social Assistance Accommodation Census, 2020. Reports form the Program of Specialized Shelters and External Care Centers)
Centers of Justice for Women:
65 Centers
The information on the Women's Justice Centers up to 2021 is also collected by INEGI and can be found here
108 Shelters for women and their children experiencing violence
In 32 federal entities, other local institutions provide assistance to women victims of violence.For example, in Mexico City there are "Las Lunas" which are the territorial units for care and prevention of gender violence of the Women's Secretariat. They are spaces where women who experience any type of violence will find advice and psychological and legal support to get out of the circle of violence, in addition to providing information and channeling on issues such as sexual and reproductive rights, Legal Interruption of Pregnancy (ILE) and economic development. They have a new care model that identifies the level of risk in which women who arrive for the first time find themselves. Currently, 27 Lunas operate in Mexico City.
Helplines:
1 national helpline for cases of VAWG (911);
Each state has at least one helpline;
Some municipalities have their own helplines or Apps to report VAWG and request assistance
Helplines:
339,451 calls were registered at Hotline 911
504 women who are 18 years and older resident in the shelters
In 2021: 20,351 women; In 2022: 8,611 women
The National Health Information System (SINAIS) through the Automated Injuries and Causes Subsystem of Violence, which operates through the SIS-SS-17-P Format. Data collected by the Ministry of Health since 2009.
State and federal health services, provide specialized assistance to women who seek medical services for physical, sexual, and psychological injuries. These services are provided within the framework of the “Official Mexican Standard NOM-046-SSA2-2005. Family, Sexual and Violence against Women”
Of the 300,414 women who were injured in the family and non-family environment between 2018 and 2020, 25.3% of the cases were physical violence (76,117); 10.8% were sexual violence (32,411), and 63.9% were psychological violence (191,886).
