Abuses occurred in institutions and care facilities housing persons with mental disabilities, including those for children. In July an arrangement was reached on a course of remediation, which included a new collective bargaining agreement legitimization vote under the supervision of the STPS, with observers from the National Electoral Institute and the International Labor Organization. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the median salary for full-time female employees was 19 percent less than that of full-time male employees. Government officials were mostly cooperative and responsive, with the president and cabinet officials meeting with human rights organizations, such as OHCHR, IACHR, and CNDH.
Diplomatic Security Reports and Publications - United States Department Institutionalized Children: Civil society groups expressed concern regarding abuse of children with mental and physical disabilities in orphanages, migrant centers, and care facilities. Between January and June, state authorities opened 10,458 new rape investigations. Responsibility for registration of unions and collective bargaining agreements, including amendments to their statutes, shifted to the Federal Conciliation and Labor Registration Center in November 2020 for the eight phase-one states. UNICEF reported that 6.9 million students in Venezuela missed almost all classroom instruction between March 2020 and February 2021. While penalties for conviction of forced labor were commensurate with those for similar crimes, very few cases were successfully prosecuted. Reports indicated that women suffered disproportionately from pretrial detention. The Quintana Roo prosecutor general confirmed police officers used disproportionate force during the arrest. The government investigated and prosecuted some of these crimes, but the vast majority remained uninvestigated and unprosecuted. Forced internal displacement disproportionally affected indigenous communities. The states with the most teenage pregnancies were Chiapas, Coahuila, and Guerrero, and Tabasco. Politicians publicly discredited and criticized such journalists, however. Conditions in prisons and detention centers were often harsh and life threatening. In July the secretary of the navy publicly apologized to families of the victims, marking the first time the armed forces apologized for committing forced disappearances. The Jalisco government disarmed the municipal police force of Ixtlahuacan and turned over public security duties to the National Guard and the Jalisco Secretariat for Public Security. On May 1, the role of verifying the process for unions to organize a secret ballot vote for workers to approve or reject existing collective bargaining agreements within the four-year period established by the reforms (legitimization process) transitioned from the STPS to the Federal Center. Communities and NGOs representing indigenous groups criticized the government for failing to consult indigenous communities adequately when making decisions regarding extractive industry and natural resource development projects on indigenous lands. Violence by organized criminal groups often prompted the incidents, which took place in 10 states and displaced 11,560 persons as of August. such as having witnessed the commission of a crime; in a 2018 report, the domestic think tank Mexico . Although the law requires entities recruiting for overseas employment to register with the STPS, there is no enforcement mechanism, and only a handful of recruiters complied. As of August 18, authorities had not confirmed whether the threatening video was genuine. A 2019 constitutional amendment grants the president the authority to use the armed forces to protect internal and national security through 2024. While on average informal workers earned less than the minimum wage, in some areas, such as near the northern border, informal employment could pay more than formal employment in the manufacturing sector. The law prohibits compulsory overtime. Femicide is a federal offense punishable by 40 to 70 years in prison. Women and children were subjected to domestic servitude. According to INEGIs 2016 National Survey on the Dynamics of Household Relationships, 22 percent of working women reported experiencing labor discrimination within the previous 12 months. The Puebla state government sued the news outlet E-Consulta seven times due to its reporting. A forensic doctor at the Yucatan Prosecutor Generals Office confirmed that he had suffered sexual abuse. To some of the abusers were reported to be male classmates, but there were also reports sexual! There were credible reports that members of security forces committed some abuses. In February authorities arrested 12 state police officers in Camargo, Tamaulipas, on homicide charges in connection with the massacre and burning of the bodies of three smugglers and 16 Guatemalan migrants en route to the United States. Approximately 23 percent of informal workers (6.8 million persons) were employed by formal businesses or organizations but paid in cash off the books to evade taxes and social security payments.
PDF Organized Crime and Violence in Guanajuato - JUSTICE IN MEXICO Informal workers were in every sector of the economy, with agriculture as the sector with the greatest number of informal workers. In July the Supreme Court ruled that authorities at all levels must investigate enforced disappearances, search for disappeared persons, and inform victims of the process. According to the Mexican Social Security Institute, as a result of the law 2.7 million workers of the 4.6 million subcontractors moved from formal subcontracting status to a formal direct employment status. Nationwide the CNB reported the exhumation of the remains of at least 3,025 persons in 1,749 clandestine graves between December 1, 2018, and June 30. The National Shelter Network reported that the network assisted 12,000 women and children between January and August. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and NGOs expressed concerns regarding arbitrary detention and the potential for it to lead to other human rights abuses. According to the NGO, institutional staff in Baja California reported that four children with disabilities died within days of each other with no known investigations.
World Report 2022: Mexico | Human Rights Watch Peru Crime & Safety Report - LimaEasy OSAC's public-private partnership currently consists of over 5,400 organization and 18,000 individual members. The report singled out Hidalgo, Nayarit, Puebla, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Tamaulipas as the states with the worst prison conditions. | OSAC is a partnership . Authorities declared 10 political parties eligible to participate in the midterm elections. Higher Risk Travel. In August the federal government signed a public-private partnership agreement with the Teleton Institute for it to provide rehabilitation services to 20,000 pension-receiving children. Penalties for law violations regarding hours and minimum wage were commensurate with those for other similar laws but were rarely enforced. This practice violated federal law and restricted workers rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The law requires the Secretariat of Health to promote the creation of long-term institutions for persons with disabilities in distress, and the Secretariat of Social Development must establish specialized institutions to care for, protect, and house poor, neglected, or marginalized persons with disabilities. State preventive police report to state governors, while municipal police report to mayors. Nonetheless, NGOs and media reported on sexual exploitation of minors, as well as child sex tourism in resort towns and northern border areas. Enforcement was inadequate in many small companies, in agriculture, and in construction, and nearly absent in the informal sector in which most child laborers worked. Occupational Safety and Health: The law requires employers to observe occupational safety and health regulations, issued jointly by the STPS and Institute for Social Security. On February 6, the federal Law Against Digital Harassment took effect. The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) was created in 1985 under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to promote security cooperation between American private-sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State. In 2016, the most recent data available, INEGI reported that 44 percent of persons working in agriculture were day laborers. Legally mandated joint management and labor committees set standards and are responsible for overseeing workplace standards in plants and offices. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. Last Update: Reissued with updates to health information. Lozoya accused high-level politicians representing multiple parties of complicity in his corrupt acts and was acting as a states witness in trials against them. As a result he was forced to urinate and defecate in his bed, according to Human Rights Watch. OSAC Council. As of July 13, a total of 3,501 prisoners had contracted COVID-19 and 75,162 had received vaccines, according to the CNDH. The procedure known in Spanish as arraigo (a constitutionally permitted form of pretrial detention employed during the investigative phase of a criminal case before probable cause is fully established) allows, with a judges approval, for certain suspects to be detained prior to filing formal charges. On August 7, Yucatan governor Mauricio Villa announced the arrest of four police officers, but on August 14, a judge set them free due to a lack of evidence. According to the Interior Secretariat, between 2018 and July assailants killed seven journalists and two defenders under protection of the mechanism. The CNDHs 2020 National Diagnostic of Penitentiary Supervision reported that state prisons were understaffed and suffered from poor sanitary conditions as well as a lack of separation between those sentenced and those awaiting trial. Freedom to Participate in the Political Process, Section 4. Political parties nominated more female candidates for public office in the midterm elections than ever before, including half of their candidates for governor in the 15 races up for election. There were reports of journalists practicing self-censorship due to threats from criminal groups and government officials. Observers from grassroots labor rights groups, international NGOs, and multinational apparel brands reported that employers in export-oriented supply chains increasingly used hiring methods that lessened job security. Federal law sets six eight-hour days and 48 hours per week as the legal workweek. Outsourcing practices made it difficult for workers to identify their legally registered employer, thus limiting their ability to seek redress of labor grievances. San Luis Potos, SLP.- San Luis Potos is the second most dangerous city in the country, according to the National Victimization Survey on Public Safety (Envipe) 2021, carried out by INEGI. On January 14, community leaders went to the municipal headquarters of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero, to urge revocation of Protestant families local property rights for refusing to participate in the construction and servicing of the local Catholic church. Freedom Houses 2021 Freedom on the Net report categorized the countrys internet as partly free, noting concerns regarding online manipulation tactics, potential for politicized content removals, high levels of violence against digital reporters, and investigations surrounding abusive surveillance practices.
Mexico - United States Department of State PDF U.S. Department of State - United States Department of State He fled to Israel, and the government requested that the Israeli government issue an arrest warrant and extradite him. Across the criminal justice system, many actors lacked the necessary training and capacity to carry out their duties fairly and consistently in line with the principle of equal justice. In April authorities arrested and prosecuted Alexis Rafael Valadez Vazquez under the new law for publishing intimate photographs of women online, without their consent, to extort them. In June President Lopez Obrador announced that forensic scientists at the University of Innsbruck conclusively identified the remains of Jhosivani Guerrero, marking the third body identified of the 43 disappeared students. There were reports of numerous forced disappearances by organized crime groups, sometimes with allegations of state collusion with authorities. U.S. Department of State - United States Department of State NGOs reported authorities had not implemented programs for community integration. a > September,. According to multiple NGOs, due to COVID-19s impact on the economy, funding sources for womens shelters, including for indigenous women, were insufficient. According to Google Report, Google received 24 requests from authorities in 2020 to remove content 13 from police, eight from government officials, and three from unspecified sources. The minimum age for hazardous work is 18, including all work in the agricultural sector.
US Overseas Security Advisory Council issues new Travel Advisory for Mexico With a judges consent, children may marry at younger ages. There were credible reports of sexual assaults against migrants, particularly women, while migrating in and through the country. State and federal prosecutors are independent of the executive branch and have the final authority to investigate and prosecute security force abuses. The National Council to Prevent Discriminations 2017 national survey on discrimination found 58 percent of Afro-Mexicans and 65 percent of indigenous persons considered their rights were respected little or not at all. The survey also reported 22 percent of persons said they would not share a household with an Afro-Mexican. Of the 500 legislators in the Chamber of Deputies, 250 were women, 1 percent more than after the 2018 elections. The Prosecutor Generals Office owned a previous genetics database, which consisted of 63,000 profiles, and was responsible for the new database. The presidential cabinet had 19 secretariats, and as of August women headed seven.