Human Rights Commission and CONALEP to empower young women in Mexico

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With aims of enhancing the potential of female students at Mexico’s National Technical Professional High School (CONALEP) while promoting their autonomy and leadership in a framework of equality, Luis Raúl González Pérez, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) informed that the national institution would work alongside the school for the implementation of campaigns to empower young woman at CONALEP schools throughout the country.

During the awards ceremony of the CONALEP Young Women’s Councel in the State of Mexico , which took place at the Ing. Bernardo Quintana Arrioja campus in Cuautitlán Izcalli , the ombudsman assured that the young women at CONALEP were fully capable of developing as exceptional individuals and that all they needed were very specific conditions that would give them the freedom to make decisions that affect their future.

“It is in the interest of government institutions that we assume challenges to allow for women to make decisions about their own bodies, resources, and public affairs. Facing this challenge, we need to make gender discrimination visible, since it has historically restricted the full enjoyment of their individual rights and constituted an obstacle for their development,”

stated González Pérez.

The head of the Human Rights Commission in Mexico reminded that, according to the Equality and Non-Discrimination survey conducted each year by the CNDH, 74% of women in the country considered to be systematically discriminated for their gender, and around 50% of them claim that the situation has gotten worse .

Another problem that concerns the CNDH has to do with challenges young women face regarding their autonomy, since they are highly likely to suffer human rights violations, become pregnant at an early age, and suffer sexual violence .