The Constitution and women's human rights in Mexico

Abstract

Abstract. Over time, women have waged struggles for the recognition of their rights, mainly that of equality, since they have been victims of discrimination, considered a thing or object owned by the male sex, thanks to the ingrained and inherited patriarchal system from generation to generation in our country and that unfortunately seems to be transferred from custom to legislation. This paper aims to briefly analyze the antecedents of national and international legislation in which women's rights have been recognized and / or embodied. The above, resorting to documentary scientific methodology in which the various international mechanisms on women's human rights are consulted, in the same way with the historical method the antecedents of the origin and evolution of women's human rights are studied, so that with the help of the legal sociological method, emblematic cases of systematic human rights violations against women in Mexico can be reviewed.