Outcome MEX_D_6.1

By 2025, the Mexican State has a comprehensive strategy for social development, combating multidimensional poverty and inequality, with an integrated approach to human rights, gender, interculturality, life cycle and territory, which incorporates re-distributive mechanisms without leaving anyone behind.

The close collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out the Gender Equality Forum , in Mexico City, gave as a results seven key partnerships to promote gender equality (Strategic partnership between the Ford Foundation, the Equality Fund and the Government of Canada; Women Moving Millions; Feminist path; Group of Friends of Gender Equality; Global Alliance of Care and the Global Acceleration Plan). This international meeting registered more than 13,000 participants from all over the world, 48% of whom were 34 years old or younger. Of all these results and partnerships, the CO gives a close follow up to the Global Alliance of Care announced on 31 March and launched in Paris on 2 July 2021. The Alliance counts with 52 members who includes institutions and organizations implementing Action Coalition in the care economy: governments, international institutions, civil society organizations, private sector, philanthropic organizations, academia, youth and feminist movements. Ministers, deputy ministers and representatives from 21 countries, within the framework of the Generation Equality Forum establishes a Group of Friends for Gender Equality . An initiative presented by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, within the framework of the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, as part of its feminist foreign policy. This in order to promote coordinated action, in multilateral forums, to accelerate gender equality and promote the human rights of women and girls, through the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and other international commitments. T he CO supports Mexico to encourage its international cooperation actors to join its efforts to improve coordination on gender equality and women's human rights . The International Cooperation Gender Roundtable (ICGR), currently chaired by the Embassy of Switzerland for the period of 2021-2022, has put a strong focus on women human rights defenders and journalists. The CO work at the IC G R has resulted in the raise of the members by adding Uruguay, Chile and Italy throughout the last year . Likewise, an event was held with legislators and the Embassy of Spain called "The time of women" which had two international parliamentarians and 30 elected national legislators to exchange experiences and good practices in order to strengthen their capacities as legislators in the new parity government and the 18 Embassies engaged with the 25 th November actions that the CO organizes to eradicate violence against women. Un Women CO gives continuous support so the Mexican government can have a comprehensive perspective and strategy to leave no one behind, particularly women in vulnerability. For this, UNW Mexico contributed with inputs to the UNW RO to strengthen the process of developing a General Recommendation on indigenous women and girls by the CEDAW Committee of Experts and gave workshops of local mechanisms for the advancement of women and municipal authorities regarding the Mandate and work of the CEDAW Committee , functioning and its observations to the Mexican State. Knowledge products and knowledge sharing through trainings and workshops organized by the CO, give more information that facilitates substantive progress towards achieving the goals and commitments of the Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW, SCR 1325 and other global regulatory and political frameworks that promote the reduction of poverty, inequalities and substantive equality between men and women. With the efforts made jointly with the Mexican government, the GEF gave insights and new partnerships that are working as mechanisms that give more tools and discussion spaces to empower women in Mexico, the region, and the world. To give support to the implementation of the SDGs at national level, the CO continues generating strategic alliances to disseminate and adapt training courses such as "I know Gender" and on sexual harassment and harassment to the national context, so that key audiences such as officials of the federal public administration and of some states, as well as the Community of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (more than 70,000) can increase their knowledge to create strategies and actions in their institutions with gender perspective. UN Women facilitated the participation and support the CSAG of Mexico in the Generation Equality Forum. The dialogues were intersectional, intergenerational and Mexican CS and youth, as well of indigenous women had an important role. The CSAG coordinated a national consultation with women, as part of the consultation process. UNW facilitated the participation and support of the CSAG of Mexico in the GEF Paris. In the framework of the ED&rsquo;s visit to Mexico for the GEF, a special meeting was organized with the CSAG regarding violence against women and how to tackle the different challenges of new normality in Mexico after COVID19. <p style="margin-bottom:6.0

By 2025, the Mexican State has a comprehensive strategy for social development, combating multidimensional poverty and inequality, with an integrated approach to human rights, gender, interculturality, life cycle and territory, which incorporates re-distributive mechanisms without leaving anyone behind.

UN Women Mexico made progress on the outcome in 2023. To advance women's rights and influencing key international dialogues, UN Women Mexico played a pivotal role, in collaboration with the UNCT, in reporting and evaluation processes of the Mexican State in alignment with its obligations to international human rights treaty bodies: UN MEXICO Report &ndash; 4th UPR Cycle (Universal Periodic Review); Advocacy Brief for UN Women Mexico's UPR Recommendations "Suggested recommendations by UN Women Mexico Universal Periodic Review of Mexico"; UNCT Mexico Report on the List of Issues Prior to Reporting for CEDAW Committee; Contributions to UNCT Report on the List of Issues Prior to Reporting VII Cycle for CESCR Committee; Written Opinion on the Request for an Advisory Opinion presented by the Argentine Republic before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. High-level, evidence-focused, and technically solid events are an important enabler of political commitment. In 2023, the office prioritized specific events where the whole office was involved, such as the Noche por la igualdad and emblematic activations, which resulted in strong commitment of national partners and strengthened positioning of UN Women as a key player in gender-responsive implementation and monitoring of SDGs. The Night for Equality , an event to present the 2022 results achieved by UN Women Mexico, contributed to communicate the importance of Generation Equality. Among these results were: initiatives for a national care system; recognition and protection of domestic workers&acute; rights; as well as fostering women&acute;s political and economic leadership. The event served to promote resource mobilization and advocacy for gender equality projects in Mexico. Promotion of socio-cultural transformation to not leave any women or girl behind was addressed through the UN Women HeForShe movement. Specific actions of the HeForShe (HfS) movement in Mexico included scholarships for women and actions such as the one implemented by the Tec de Monterrey university, that due to its work with HeForShe, was invited to be part of the panel Being Respectfully Disruptive in The Pursuit of Gender Equality , in the Global HeForShe Summitt . Tec de Monterrey was represented by one of its most vocal students of HfS, who participated with CEOs and managers from international companies in the Summit that gathered global HeForShe champions. Awareness on gender equality was generated via communication campaigns and activations by UN Women with institutions like IMER and Canal 22; as well as key public figures. Marion Reimers, Good Will Ambassador, participated in the Official Commemoration of International Women's Day 2023 (IWD ) at the United Nations in New York. Ximena Sari&ntilde;ana, Good Will Ambassador, met with women participants from Second Chance Education to learn more of the impact of the program in Mexico. Karla Souza, UN Women Mexico&acute;s Spokesperson, joined the UNITE campaign and participated in the screening of the film Dive in the Film Festival to prevent violence against women and girls organized by UN Women Mexico and the Ministry of Culture. Magos Herrera, UN Women Mexico Spokesperson, presented the Con Alma Concert at the 67th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67). The International Cooperation Roundtable in Mexico established a new co-chaired Presidency with the Embassy of Chile and the German Embassy. The presence of the ICRM was amplified as a successful platform for sharing best practices and experiences at a local and national level with a field visit to Tlaxcala. It was also an opportunity to expand our knowledge on the Mexican local context and explore different ways of collaboration with Mexican local states. The ICRM published two editorial opinions Invertir para prevenir la violencia es una tarea de todos y de todas and Prevenir la violencia contra las mujeres: tarea de todos y todas about the prevention and elimination of violence against women. Awareness-raising was spread as a clear message of zero tolerance of all forms of violence against women and girls through the international film festival showcasing 7 pieces of female directors. Collaboration between Mexico CO and HQ facilitated the successful participation of one of the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) members that promoted the vision of Latin America in an international conference of feminist foreign policy on the main challenges in terms of climate change and feminist foreign policy, following the principle of leaving no one behind . Capacity building with UN Women CSAG was amplified by a training to the communications team on how to include a disability perspective in every social media communication. It was also strengthened with the facilitation of a meeting with the former CSAG members and with diverse meetings with the LAC regional CSAG. This marks a huge step forward in the importance of being inclusive and leaving no one behind.

By 2025, the Mexican State has a comprehensive strategy for social development, combating multidimensional poverty and inequality, with an integrated approach to human rights, gender, interculturality, life cycle and territory, which incorporates re-distributive mechanisms without leaving anyone behind.

UN Women Mexico made progress on the outcome in 2024. To advance women's rights and influencing key dialogues. UN Women Mexico played a pivotal role in contributing to international reports by providing critical data, analysis, and recommendations on gender equality and women's empowerment. Through its network of partners, including governments, civil society organizations, and other UN agencies, UN Women ensures that women's rights and gender perspectives are integrated into global policy discussions and decision-making processes and key international reports: CEDAW Committee - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: The " UNCT Mexico Report on the List of Issues Prior to Reporting " presented for the 88th (PSWG) Pre-Sessional Working Group On November 14, the " List of issues and questions prior to the submission of Mexico's tenth periodic report " was published, in which the Committee took up important parts of our recommendations. Tenth periodic report that Mexico was due to submit in 2024 under Article 18 of the Convention (response of the Mexican State): CEDAW_C_MEX_10_8716_S.pdf IACHR - Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Contributed to the "Written opinion in relation to the request for an advisory opinion submitted by the Argentine Republic to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on &ldquo; The content and scope of the right to care and its interrelation with other rights &rdquo; UN Human Rights Office: Inputs to be part of the Study on Care and Support, in Accordance with Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/54/6 &ldquo; Centrality of Care and Support from a Human Rights Perspective &rdquo; UPR - Human Rights Council: Contributed to the " UN MEXICO Report &ndash; 4th UPR cycle ". Prepared the advocacy brief " Suggested recommendations by UN Women Mexico Universal Periodic Review of Mexico ". Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review to Mexico Prepared the brief statement for the session in which the Human Rights Council formally adopted the review of Mexico. Internal Note on recommendations on women's rights . Response of the Mexican State to the observations on the conclusions and/or recommendations . CRC Committee - Convention on the Rights of the Child: prepared the UN Women Mexico Country Office Contributions to the UNCT Report for the CRC Committees Consideration on the Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports of Mexico ; Concluding observations on the combined sixth and seventh reports of Mexico . In coordination with the United Nations Country Team and the Interagency Gender Group, the Country Office facilitated closed-door dialogues with the teams of the presidential candidates whom were responsible for their gender equality and women empowerment proposals, in which an integrated assessment of the rights and needs of women in the country was shared from the perspective of the UN in Mexico, as well as best practices, experiences of joint-work with the Mexican authorities and policy inputs. Additionally, the UNCT prepared a "Decalogue of Essentials for Advancing Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Mexico," highlighting that women's rights and gender equality are a priority for the United Nations System. Besides the work of UN Women, all Agencies, Funds, and Programs have the responsibility to contribute to the advancement of women's and girls' rights and the achievement of gender equality as a cross-cutting axis of the Cooperation Framework for Sustainable Development, through the implementation of various joint programs and initiatives. The Country Office also facilitated the dialogue of the UNCT and the Interagency Gender Group with the Secretary for Women (the first woman in the position, given that the Secretariat was created as part of the commitments of the new President of Mexico towards gender equality), to directly learn about the priorities of the new administration on women's rights and propose coordinated support from the UN System in Mexico. The Country Office led the development of inter-agency inputs to strengthen UNCT engagement with the new government, specifically for the construction of a coordinated agenda on gender equality and women's rights. The Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) played a pivotal role in fortifying UN Women mandate. This was achieved by facilitating dialogues with women's rights movements and forging alliances in support of women's rights, thereby amplifying their strategies to expedite the realization of gender equality by the year 2030. During their second in-person meeting in November 2024, the Country Office organized a high-level dialogue with Citlali Hernandez, the first Secretary of the recently established Minister for Women in Mexico under Claudia Sheinbaum's leadership as President of Mexico. This dialogue contributed to fostering engagement between CSAG, UNW, and the Minister for Women, thereby enabling them to provide substantive feedback on the plans and programs that will be implemented over the subsequent six years. These programs focus on addressing gender inequalities, eradicating violence against women and girls, and promoting a progressive self-care system. UN Women Mexico&acute;s Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) provided strategic and political guidance on UN Women initiatives in the country, including the efforts to consolidate a national care system. The 12 CSAG members met to review global women's rights events. Furthermore, this engagement has contributed to the enhancement of civil society's representation as an expert mechanism that will provide technical feedback. Additionally, it has promoted a human- and gender-based approach to programs and policies, ensuring that no individuals or groups are left behind. Promotion of socio-cultural transformation and shared responsibility between women and men to achieve gender equality and egalitarian societies was addressed through the HeForShe movement , with participation from academic institutions like Tec de Monterrey, one of the largest private universities in the country. Tec de Monterrey reinforced its nationwide commitment to gender equality and HeForShe with eight revised and renewed HeForShe commitments first signed in 2019. UN Women participated in the Effie Awards 2024 as a jury to evaluate all campaigns with a gender perspective. On the day of the awards, UN Women was part of the panel "The power of diversity to elevate brand effectiveness," alongside women from marketing and media industry. Awareness on gender equality, women empowerment, and the elimination of violence against women and girls was generated via several communication actions, campaigns, and activations developed by UN Women in partnership with different stakeholders. This included Chilango Magazine , with a collaborative story addressing femicide cases with a gender perspective, and ongoing collaboration with public media like Canal 22 on television and IMER on radio, both reaching millions across the country. Within the UNITE Campaign, Karla Souza was appointed National Goodwill Ambassador for Mexico . National Goodwill Ambassadors Marion Reimers and Karla Souza joined the social media campaign #ChangeTheRules for the 2024 Summer Olympics, marking the first games with equal participation between women and men. UN Women participated in the HERA festival with the panel &ldquo;Who Takes Care of Me?&rdquo; to position the care agenda. HERA is the first music festival in Mexico organized by women with an all-women lineup, created by National Goodwill Ambassador Ximena Sari&ntilde;ana and other women artists. As part of interagency work within the UN System, Ximena Sari&ntilde;ana participated in UNHCR&rsquo;s &ldquo;Palomazo por las personas refugiadas,&rdquo; a concert for the Global Day for Refugees.

By 2025, the Mexican State has a comprehensive strategy for social development, combating multidimensional poverty and inequality, with an integrated approach to human rights, gender, interculturality, life cycle and territory, which incorporates re-distributive mechanisms without leaving anyone behind.

UN Women Mexico made strong progress on the outcome in 2022. Global Alliance for Care , convened by the National Institute of Women (INMUJERES) of Mexico and UN Women mobilized 89 organizations representing national and local governments, international organizations, private and philanthropic organizations, and civil society organizations&mdash;including grassroots women, caregivers, unions, and youth organizations&mdash;to join the Alliance at December 2022. Its strong presence at the G7 Conference on "Who cares? Gender equality and the care sector in international cooperation," CSW66, the Human Rights Council sessions, the UNGA77, and the Bali Care Economy Dialogue , has enhanced the visibility of unpaid care work. At regional level , the GAC participated in the XV Meeting of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean , focused on The Care Society as a Horizon for Sustainable Recovery with Gender Equality . The Conference resulted in the Buenos Aires Commitment , towards a Care Society in LAC. UNRISD, INMUJERES, UN Women, sponsored by IDRC, designed a digital platform to compile and share data, research and good practice to support decision-makers in the implementation of care policies and systems. The Alliance has also supported UN Women&rsquo;s studies on &ldquo; Financing Comprehensive Care Systems. Proposals for Latin America and the Caribbea n&rdquo; (2022) and &ldquo; Methodology for estimating the costs and economic impacts of the implementation of care services in Latin America and the Caribbean &rdquo; (2022). The GAC engaged in the XXIII International Meeting on Gender Statistics, " Care at the center of development: Opportunities and statistical challenges ,&rdquo; 5-7 October 2022, in Aguascalientes, Mexico with an interactive dialogue on progress and challenges to produce and use data and statistics on care work. The GAC promoted the creation of two communities of analysis (CoA). The first focused on public policies and care practices. Building on the innovative experiences at national level &ndash;Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Panama and Peru&ndash; and subnational level &ndash;Iztapalapa and San Pedro Garza Garc&iacute;a in Mexico&mdash;, related to the principle of co-responsibility and the creation of comprehensive care systems, financing care systems , engaging the private sector . A second CoA promoted policy dialogues and learning workshops to delve into the right to care . At national level , the legislative and executive branches have increased their capacities to formulate and implement a National System of Care and local governments have increased their knowledge and awareness of gender equality, women&rsquo;s economic empowerment and care work, through technical assistance, research agenda and decision-making tools. UN Women CO brings normative support by providing technical assistance and the production of knowledge products for evidence-based decision making, such as the methodology to estimate the costs and returns of investment in care services. The methodology was developed in coordination with the Regional Office, which was a key decision to allow its replication in other LAC countries (e.g., Dominican Republic). The strategy was complemented with operational activities, including a pilot of care service for children aged 4 to 8 in Iztapalapa, a municipality of Mexico City, that resulted in an improvement of children&rsquo;s development and 94% of women using the service having time for paid work. Nearly 60 indigenous women from 21 countries in the LAC region attended the Regional Consultation in Mexico with indigenous women leaders from the Americas region to contribute to the development of the CEDAW General Recommendation No. 39 . UN Women Mexico, in coordination with UNW RO, accompanied and facilitated the consultation jointly with OHCHR, INMUJERES, International Indigenous Women&rsquo;s Forum and UNICEF. Prior the Regional Consultation, approximately 80 indigenous women from 68 indigenous communities, authorities, leaders, defenders, activists, members of networks and organized civil society participated in the National Dialogue on the General Recommendation No. 39 which took place on May 17-18, 2022, in Mexico City, UNW collaborated with INMUJERES to facilitate the dialogue which contributed to the Regional Consultation with concrete proposals. The contributions of the consultation have been considered by the CEDAW Committee of Experts for inclusion in the General Recommendation No. 39 , approved in October. The International Cooperation Roundtable for Gender Equality in Mexico (ICRM) enhanced political dialogue with Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration from the Ministry of Interior, to discuss the situation of women human rights defenders and journalists, and discussed spaces for collaboration between international cooperation and Mexican government. 229 Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) and journalists from 18 States of Mexico have improved skills to develop their work, make visible their actions and build networks that allows them to enhance their results and voice as a result of UN Women together with the Swiss Embassy and the ICRM organizing the event Women at the forefront for rights and freedom of expression. 60 journalists from around the country participated at the event Journalism with a gender perspective, in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy, CIMAC and IDHEAS, a space for reflection and the use of tools on how to communicate with a gender and human rights perspective. In collaboration with the Mexican Radio Institute, UN Women launched a social media campaign with 30 videos of WHRD&rsquo;s and journalists and 20 radio capsules to draw attention to the important work of WHRD&rsquo;s and journalists do every day, disseminating their experiences in territorial work, providing support to survivors and victims, aimed at eradicating femicide violence against women and girls. Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) was renovated with 13 new members characterized by having an intersectional and intergenerational focus with geographic diversity. The members belong to 10 different states of the republic from the north, center and south of Mexico. Another of the objectives with the renewal of this new group was to incorporate youth and new thematic areas such as the work with LGBTIQ+ groups, women and the environment, and women with disabilities. CSAG aims to strengthen existing relationships and increase strategic dialogue with civil society at a global, regional, and national level and formally recognize it as one of the most important dialogue groups, providing a dynamic source of initiatives, ideas, analysis and innovative political perspectives. Men from universities, male parents and international institutions increased their awareness around human rights and positive masculinities, in the framework of HeforShe campaign. The communication campaign For More Present Paternities (Por M&aacute;s #PaternidadesPresentes) launched alongside &ldquo;De Machos a Hombres&rdquo; Institute and UNICEF, in collaboration with Mexico's City Secretary of Mobility, to strengthen positive masculinities. Enterprises like Danone, Unilever, Diageo, Wunderman Thompson, PepsiCO and Publicis Group joined UN Women Mexico for the promotion of socio-cultural transformation to enhance a gender equality approach without leaving any woman or girl behind, through their membership to the National Chapter of the Unstereotype Alliance; also, private sector, civil society, sports clubs, journalist and government institutions increased their awareness on the role of media in the reproduction of harmful stereotypes of women in sports, through the presentation of a study, implemented by Versus and presented with the support of UN Women.