ECPAT Mexico works with the Network for Children’s Rights, which comprises four organisations in Mexico. The group has worked on legal reform in relation to CSEC and trafficking for sexual purposes; incorporated CSEC into the public agenda and raised awareness through the mass media; helped increase membership of the Committee for the Elaboration of a Trafficking Law, composed of representatives from academia, international organisations, NGOs and government agencies; conducted a CSEC situational analysis in the State of Tabasco; participated in the training of Oxaca prosecutors; and designed and coordinated a child forum on CSEC.
Contact: Sra. Norma Elena Negrete Aguayo
Phone: +52 57 025855
Address: Tallo núm. 2 edif. A 304 Col. San Pablo Tepetlapa Delegación Coyoacán, CP 04620 Mexico D.F.
Email:
ecpatmexico@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.ecpatmexico.org.mx
Mexico is a source, transit and destination country for children subjected to trafficking for sexual purposes and forced labour.
In 2014, the General Congress of the United Mexican States approved a comprehensive reform of the law against human trafficking. Articles 16 and 18 criminalise several types of offences related to child sexual abuse material and sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, respectively.
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Active and passive extraterritoriality is provided for all crimes as long as the offender is in Mexican territory. Double criminality is required.
Extradition requires a minimum average gravity of one year of imprisonment and double criminality. Mexican nationals cannot be extradited.
SECTT Legal Checklist Mexico, 2020
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There are no mandatory legal provisions for criminal background checks nor legislation prohibiting convicted sex offenders to hold positions involving or facilitating contact with children.
SECTT Legal Checklist Mexico, 2020
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Mexico has ratified the CRC, the OPSC, the Trafficking Protocol and the ILO Convention No. 182.
Mexico has not ratified the OPIC, the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics nor the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote and Budapest Conventions.
SECTT Legal Checklist Mexico, 2020
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Mexico has implemented a national code for child protection in travel and tourism as a non-binding requirement for industry operators.
SECTT Legal Checklist Mexico, 2020
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