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#GobiernoDeMéxico.- The Constitutional President of the United Mexican States, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, presented the Constitutional Reforms -which she is sending this Thursday to the Senate of the Republic- for the protection and expansion of women’s rights, which implies the modification to six articles of the Political Constitution: 4°; 21; 41; 73; 116 and 123, in addition to seven secondary laws, to make substantive equality a reality; the gender perspective and the right to a life free of violence.

“As the first President of Mexico, our obligation is to protect women and that the Constitution of the Republic establishes (…): One, substantive equality (…) and also the right to a life free of violence, not only for women, but also for adolescents and children. In addition, there should be no wage gap between men and women: equal work, equal pay.
equal pay for equal work. And from there, there are also a series of modifications to laws that have to do with the protection of Mexican women”, she explained in the morning conference ‘Las mañaneras del pueblo’.

She detailed that, “Article 4 will incorporate the right to substantive equality, which has to do not only with the equality of women and men before the law, but also that all laws and all provisions in our country must consider the particularities of women and their human rights, that is what equality refers to”.

Articles 21 and 116 of the Constitution provide that the security and justice institutions of the states shall adjust their actions to a gender perspective.

Meanwhile, “Article 41 establishes the mandatory nature of gender parity in the Federal and State Public Administration, that is to say, that there must be parity cabinets; it will be established in the Constitution”.

In order to guarantee women’s access to a life free of violence, Articles 4°, 21, 73 fraction XXI and 116 will be amended to implement actions focused on addressing the particular needs of women in situations related to gender-based grievances.

“It also establishes a life free of violence and what is called reinforced duties towards women, meaning that it is not only the application of the law, but that there must be particularities due to discrimination, due to the violence that women, girls and boys, also experience. And that the investigation prosecutors’ offices must necessarily have, as established in the Constitution, areas specialized in gender-based crimes, this did not exist in the Constitution and our objective is that it be included in the Magna Carta”, she pointed out.

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