Overview

• President Claudia Sheinbaum opened the Centro Libre para las Mujeres in Xpujil, Calakmul, as part of her administration’s drive to guarantee substantive equality and end gender violence.
• The facility operates around the clock with psychologists, legal advisors and social workers serving women from 84 indigenous and rural communities.
• Sheinbaum reaffirmed plans to establish similar centers in every municipality to provide comprehensive legal, emotional and social resources nationwide.
• Millions of copies of the Cartilla de las Mujeres have been printed and will be distributed in multiple indigenous languages to broaden access to women’s rights information.
• Officials highlighted recent reforms adding heroines such as Josefa Ortiz and Leona Vicario to national efemérides as a symbolic complement to service expansion.