Ratification of the Facultative Protocol of the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women

The authors state the background of the Facultative Protocol of the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against
Women, as well as of the Convention itself, succinctly reviewing how they operate and the rights they protect: civil, social, economic, cultural, and political. They address in particular, the new procedures of the Facultative Protocol, called communications and research. They also analyze the human rights benefits for Mexican women represented by ratification of this instrument, at the same time as they stress that Mexico’s legislation needs to be revised in as much as the new procedures of the Protocol introduce an alternate system for cases that are not settled by the domestic resources