Pathfinder country

Mexico

SDG indicator 8.7.1 Proportion of children engaged in economic activity
With household chores - age 5-17 (2019) Without household chores - age 5-17 (2019)
Total 5.001 % 5.994 %
Female 3.479 % 4.726 %
Male 1.872 % 3.386 %
SDG indicator 5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20 - 24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
3.63%
Before age 15 (2018)
20.70%
Before age 18 (2018)
Latest ratifications - View all
C138
10 Jun 2015
Ratified
C098
23 Nov 2018
Ratified
P029
11 Jun 2023
Ratified
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
2007
0.05
2008
0.04
2009
0.2
2010
0.11
2011
0.11
2012
0.18
2013
0.23
2014
1.68
2015
0.81
2016
0.79
2017
0.59
2018
2019
0.65
2020
2021
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking for forced labour, servitude and slavery, per 100,000 population
2007
0.03
2008
0.01
2009
0.14
2010
0.03
2011
0.03
2012
0.04
2013
0.1
2014
0.46
2015
0.08
2016
0.15
2017
0.06
2018
2019
0.09
2020
2021
Source: ILO Normlex

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Priorities

  • Promote the generation of information and knowledge taking into consideration gender as a crosscutting issue as well as the best interests of the child, with the aim of raising awareness on child labor, forced labor and trafficking in persons.
  • Carry out comparable measurements through the available statistics on child labor, with the use of the Child Labor Risk Identification Model developed within the framework of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour.

Progress

  • Development of the National Program on Trafficking in Persons responding to the need of prevention, protection and reparation of victims of human trafficking. This program will be the national public policy on the matter for the period 2020-2024;
  • Enhanced coordination through the creation or strengthening of a number of working groups and inter-ministerial commissions. For example:
    • Inter-secretariat Commission to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Crimes in the Matter of Trafficking in Persons and for the Protection and Assistance to Victims of these Offenses.
    • Inter-ministerial Commission for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour and Protection of Adolescent Workers of Legal Working Age in Mexico.
    • National Network of Local Commissions for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour and the Protection of Working Adolescent of Legal Working Age.
    • Working group to face the COVID19 health emergency and its impact on child labour and forced labour.
  • Mexico also conducted a series of capacity building activities on child labour issues.
    • Awareness raising through the convening of the 12th National Drawing Contest on Child Labour entitled “Mexico without Child Labour”. The objective of this contest is to allow girls, boys and adolescents to express their opinion about child labour through art; it also seeks to create awareness among the general population on the risks of child labour;
    • Strategic partnerships between the Federal Prosecution Office for the Protection of Girls, Boys and Adolescents and civil society organizations such as World Vision Mexico. This partnership seeks to train various public and private actors to tackle child labour. The Fields of Hope Program seeks to prevent and reduce child labour in the sugar cane and coffee sectors in the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca. This programme is implemented by World Vision and funded by the US Department of Labor.
  • While Mexico as pathfinder country has committed to a number of priorities to tackle child labour and forced labour, additional efforts have been directed towards Target 8.7. For example:
    • Mexico was the first country in the region to implement Phase I and II of the Child Labour Risk Identification Model, through which it was possible to identify the municipalities with the highest probability of child labour in its 32 States.
    • Mexico contributes to the development of a global research agenda on child labour and forced labour through their participation in the International Advisory Board of the MAP16 Project and the Project “From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labor and Forced Labor”. The advisory board provides technical and strategic guidance to the conduct of child labour and forced labour research. It constitutes a platform for research cooperation and dialogue, which offers the opportunity to share Mexican experience in tackling child labour and forced labour;
    • The National Institute of Statistics and Geography implemented the National Survey on Child Labour in 2019, in cooperation with the ILO which will allow assessing the prevalence of child labour in the country.

 

International Instruments

Area Ilo Instrument Status Ratification date CEACR comments
Child Labour
C138
Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973)
In Force 10 Jun 2015
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C182
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
In Force 30 Jun 2000
Child Labour, Modern Slavery
C029
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 12 May 1934
Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
P029
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention (1930)
Not In Force 11 Jun 2023
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery
C105
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
In Force 01 Jun 1959
Freedom of Association
C087
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948)
In Force 01 Apr 1950
Freedom of Association
C098
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949)
In Force 23 Nov 2018
Discrimination
C100
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
In Force 23 Aug 1952
Discrimination
C111
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958)
In Force 11 Sep 1961
Occupational Safety and Health
C155
Occupational Safety and Health Convention (1981)
In Force 01 Feb 1984

Milestones

2015

Ratification of Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138).

2014

General Law on the Rights of Children and Adolescents, and last reform on December 2019.

2003

Ratification of Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children.

2000

Ratification of Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

1990

Ratification of Convention on the Rights of the Child.

1959

Ratification of Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105).

RESOURCES
Mexico Pathfinder Country-Progress Report 2020-2021
Mexico Pathfinder Country-Progress Report 2021-2022
Mexico Pathfinder Country Strategic Workshoop - Roadmap September 2019
Mexico Pathfinder Country Strategic Workshoop - Roadmap September 2019