Overview
- Federal Deputy Diana Karina Barreras presented the plan in Mexico’s lower house on November 18.
- The measure opts for school-by-school rules crafted through participatory processes with a rights perspective.
- Its stated aim is to safeguard attention, healthy coexistence, and emotional wellbeing for children and adolescents.
- Barreras has opened consultations with civil-society experts, including Fundación PAS and Tejiendo Redes Infancia.
- The proposal is in an early consultative phase with no federal mandate in place, with potential harms from excessive screen use cited as motivation.