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Program to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in the City of Mexico (PAPED)

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México City - Mexico

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
1,000,000 inhabitants or more (metropolis)

10-2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.

American Convention on Human Rights

• Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities

• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

Summary

The Program to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in Mexico City (PAPED) is a program which seeks to prevent and eliminate discrimination in the City of Mexico, through public policies, legislation and cooperation with different public entities to deal with problems such as: unequal access to justice; access to observance of the rights of excluded groups based on their appearance, gender, age, educational level, ethnic origin or nationality, economic position, sexual preference or orientation, and political position, among other particular situations.

Implementation Date:

Start: 05 / 1 / 2013

End: End: Currently in force

Interculturalism and non-discrimination - Fight against discrimination, xenophobia and racism Interculturalism and non-discrimination - Religious and worship diversity Interculturalism and non-discrimination - Inclusion and building of intercultural societies
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The areas of state or social operation which are considered key were identified, both due to their negative social effect at the time of producing discriminatory practices and because they are fields subject to intervention for the Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in the City of Mexico (COPRED) and to contribute to deactivating such practices. In this way, a policy against discrimination in the City of Mexico is considered to be tackled from three problem cores, namely: 1. enforceability mechanisms and effective access to justice; 2. public policies focused on equity and human rights; 3. education, promotion and culture of no discrimination. These fields match those spaces or cores which are strategic for any policy aimed at eliminating discrimination, customized to the public policy instruments available for COPRED.
The general objective of the Program is to strengthen the anti-discrimination public policy through discrimination prevention, attention, promotion and elimination actions by public entities, with the participation of the private sector and civil society organizations to respect, protect, promote and guarantee the right to equality and non-discrimination of the individuals in the entity. In order to achieve the general objective, six axes are contemplated: 1) Anti-discrimination legislative, regulatory and normative policy with six courses of action. 2) Enforceability mechanisms and culture of reporting discrimination with thirteen courses of action. 3) Studies, research and measurement of discriminatory events in the City of Mexico with ten courses of action. 4) Leveling measures to close the inequality gaps in the persons who live and move in the City of Mexico with seven courses of actions. 5) Inclusion measures in the City of Mexico with fifteen courses of actions. 6) Affirmative actions on behalf of the persons and groups who are in discriminatory situations with nine courses of action.
The Program to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in the City of Mexico (PAPED) is under the charge of the Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in the City of Mexico (COPRED), a decentralized, sectorized public entity of the Secretariat of Social Development of the City of Mexico. According to section 33 of the Act to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in the Federal District (LPEDDF), the COPRED is a body with legal capacity and its own assets; it has technical and management autonomy. It is the public entity which coordinates the actions for the prevention and elimination of discrimination in the City of Mexico; it has powers to act as regulatory body for the application of the law in matters of discrimination; and it designs and coordinates the follow-up and evaluation of the PAPED.
Public entities in the City of Mexico. In the scope of its competence and powers, they are responsible for carrying out the actions of the public policy to prevent and eliminate discrimination of a general nature or to implement specific positive measures on behalf of ten groups who are in discrimination situations. In 2018, 77 public entities of the centralized Public Administration, autonomous, para-state and administrative political bodies (major offices) actively respond to the PAPED.
The Mexican constitutional framework, which incorporates the content of the international treaties ratified by interpretation of the competent bodies, sets forth the obligation of the authorities to promote, protect, respect and guarantee that individuals enjoy their human rights with no discrimination of any nature. Consistent with the foregoing, the Act to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination in the Federal District (LPEDDF) sets forth as follows: Section 3. The purpose hereof is to: I. Establish the principles and criteria which guide public policies to recognize, promote and protect the right to equality and non-discrimination, as well as to establish the inter-institutional coordination to prevent, deal with, eliminate and punish discrimination; (FIRST PARAGRAPH AMENDED TEXT, G.O.D.F. SEPTEMBER 8, 2014) […] III. Set the guidelines and establish the indicators for the design, instrumentation and evaluation of the public policies, as well as the positive and compensatory actions to be applied; IV. Establish permanent follow-up mechanisms, with participation of civil society organizations for the instrumentation of the public policies in matters of non-discrimination, as well as positive and compensatory measures. Section 8. The principle of equality and non-discrimination is established as a public policy of the Government of the Federal District and of all public entities and will govern all actions, measures and strategies which are implemented within the scope of their respective powers.
Persons with disabilities
The elderly
Women
People deprived of freedom
LGBTI Population
Indigenous peoples
Society in general
Institutional strengthening
Building of partnerships, networks, associations and coalitions
Creation of entity/plan/programme
Developing of regulations
The program considers three stages: 1) diagnosis stage, from the public problem’s conceptualization and definition angle, of the Survey on Discrimination in the City of Mexico as well as the civil society’s contributions, among other aspects; 2) regulatory stage, taking into account the powers and competences of public entities; 3) implementation of the action plan stage, considering the induction and training of institutional liaisons of the public entities which accompany, follow up and report information regarding the execution. In addition, in this phase, the coordination and interaction of institutions and sectors is considered as well as the joint social responsibility.
In 2013, the PAPED was the first program of its kind at local level. It is a crosscut and special program which includes special measures to progress in the closing of inequality gaps (reasonable adjustments, inclusion and affirmative actions). It is an innovative policy because it stems from the social joint responsibility when considering the participation of other social sectors: civil society organizations, private assistance institutions, and the private, consulting and academic sectors. In addition, the program’s courses of action are implemented considering network approaches. As a result, the public entities have incorporated the content of the right to non-discrimination in public acts. The public officials who serve as institutional liaisons have attended induction and training courses and, therefore, have acquired knowledge on the contents of the program, the equality approach and the right to non-discriminations, the management of measurement instruments, as well as the awareness driven to achieve value results towards the individuals subject to a right. Not only has the anti-discrimination public policy been transversally implemented but it has meant an inter-sectorial effort with the citizenship and the organized civil society.
(Español) Organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Academia. Consultorías. Instituciones de Asistencia Privada (IAP).
The PAPED is characterized by a strategic network approach based on the premise that “everything governmental is public, but not everything public is governmental”; therefore, the strategies to face public problems require the cooperation and collaboration of non-state players and mainly the organized civil society. The network approach also weighs the inter-institutional coordination of state players (public entities) intending to favor institutional designs with an independent look about the set of human rights and, in particular, about the right to equality and non-discrimination as a key right for the compliance of other rights. For the design of PAPED, civil society organizations (OSC), academia, consulting firms and Private Assistance Institutions were called and presented with a work proposal which was enriched by their contributions. In the preparation of the document, the observations of the members of the Consultative Assembly of the COPRED, consultation body established in the LPEDDF composed of representatives of the civil society organizations, victims of discrimination, academia and the media, were taken into consideration. During the implementation of the Program, the organizations of the civil society take part by means of the management of awareness and training processes for the citizens and public servants of the various entities of the Public Administration of the City of Mexico in different aspects related to human rights, equality and non-discrimination; as well as to the revision of service protocols, inter-institutional work tables, public events, dissemination and interpretation of Mexican Sign Language (LSM).
A follow-up report is prepared in the first semester of the year to know the progress in the implementation of the courses of action and strategies to be considered regarding the progress recorded by each public entity, which is made known in an annual meeting of the institutional liaisons. The evaluation is carried out at the end of the budgetary year, as of the implementation of actions and considering the annual results; a report is prepared and revised by the civil society organizations, public entities, professors, researchers and consultants. Every year, the COPRED prepares a PAPED evaluation report based on a questionnaire responded by the public entities. Experts from the academia, the OSC and national and international public bodies such as the UN High Commissioner’s Office for Human Rights (UNHCOHR), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECALC), the School of Public Administration of CDMX, the General Coordination of Administrative Modernization of the CDMX, among other non-members of the Council, are invited to the presentation of the reports so that they can comment and make observations in a preliminary draft which is corrected and extended with their contributions and then published in the page of COPRED in a transparency and accountability exercise.
National government
In 2017, 131 public servants of 77 entities were appointed as institutional liaisons to guarantee the follow-up of the courses of actions of the Program. In 2013, the percentage of compliance was 63%; in 2014, 74%; in 2015 and 2016 82%, and in 2017 87%. That is to say that from 2013 to 2017, compliance increased 24%. The results for this period are distributed in the following actions as regards equality developed by the public entities in the capital city in the country: ● 27,453 related to the dissemination of materials about the Act to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination, reporting mechanisms, and contents on prevention of discrimination, among others; ● 76,535 training processes; ● 102,393 awareness processes aimed at public servants, civil society organizations, and population in general; ● 5,524 events: seminars, forums, colloquiums; ● 1,946 events with interpreters of Mexican Sign Language; ● 422 adjustments for physical accessibility in buildings of the Government destined to public service; ● 3,122 prevention and elimination of discrimination actions. As a result of the foregoing, when comparing the 2013 and 2017 Survey on Discrimination in the City of Mexico, some progress was observed in relation to a lower perception of discrimination as prevailing factor. in 2013, 92.7% of the citizens perceived discrimination towards indigenous persons; in 2017 it was 87.4%. Out of the 40 most discriminated groups, indigenous people had 24% in 2013 and 17.9% in 2017. 32.1% of the citizens acknowledged that in some opportunities they have been discriminated (2013); in 2017, such percentage was 27.6%. While 24.9% knew someone close who had been discriminated in 2013; in 2017 this was reduced to 19.7%. In addition, the 2017 National Survey on Discrimination states that the indicators referred to values and attitudes to CDMX were concentrated among the 32 federal entities with the best ratings.
The dissemination of the policy is carried out through the official journal Gaceta Oficial de la Ciudad de México, in the official site of the public entities, in the section devoted to the PAPED in the web page of COPRED, through the program assessment report and its publication in the Transparency section 121, par. 44 A. The publication in the Gaceta is of the utmost importance because it turns it into a binding instrument for the citizens in general and of mandatory compliance for all public entities in the City of Mexico. In turn, social networks are widely used to promote their dissemination among the citizens and the civil society organizations interested in exercising their right to equality and non-discrimination. The Council has exponentially multiplied the number of followers in its Twitter account which gives it a relevant presence in the public agenda.
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Instrumentos

10-2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.
American Convention on Human Rights
• Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities
• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

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Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
1,000,000 inhabitants or more (metropolis)

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