The Beijing Conference and the Domestic Relations of Women: Implications for the Mexican Judicial System

This essay examines those aspects that bond women to family and which must be revised in the Mexican Legislation in the light of the agreements adopted in the Beijing Conference. The author describes the legal frame of the rights of women in Mexico. She then analyzes those aspects which bond women to family contained in Declaration of Beijing and examines the main points of the Platform of Action related to that subject. Finally, the author discusses some of the main secondary norms of the Mexican legislation which must be revised in order to attain a substantial improvement in the domestic daily conditions of Mexican women-