EPN signs bill to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide

Under the International Day Against Homophobia,Transphobia and Biphobia,President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a series of initiatives to ensure the right to marry without any kind of discrimination and to amend any law with discriminatory content in the Constitution of Mexico.

Thus, the president signed a bill to amend Article 4 of the constitution "to recognize as a human right that people can enter into marriage without any kind of discrimination."

"That is, for marriages to be carried out without discrimination on the basis of ethnicity or nationality, of disabilities, of social or health conditions, of religion, of gender or sexual preference," he said.

Accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Health and Education, the president said that he hopes these changes begin as soon as possible in all the states of the country.

He also instructed Minister of Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz Massieu to take the necessary measures to recognize and accept, without distinction, the birth certificates with a sex designation change in the passport application process.

Another initiative announced by the president is to amend all laws in the three levels of government with discriminatory content, and send a new reform package to congress.

Peña Nieto also announced that Mexico will be part of the U.N. LGBT Core Group, in which 19 countries promote human rights at international level.