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AMLO and Mexican women’s fight for equality

The next Mexican cabinet will be gender equal. But it is unclear whether Andrés Manuel López Obrador will give the feminist agenda a central role. Español

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Last July, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) issued its recommendations for the Mexican State.

It expressed concern about delays in fundamental issues such as tackling the increase in gender based violence and defusing machista culture, as well as lifting the obstacles to accessing justice with a gender sentive perspective.