Overview
- UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem told senators that legal norms without resources and operational structures fail to reduce violence against women and girls.
- She flagged persistent gaps including too few protection shelters, impunity in femicide cases, and unclear routes for victim care.
- Alsalem recommended adopting the Nordic approach to prostitution, which penalizes buyers and provides comprehensive support to those exploited.
- She urged evidence-based, human-rights–focused regulation of gestational surrogacy to prevent exploitation of women who carry pregnancies.
- Alsalem also warned that merging or downgrading specialized institutions and prioritizing only select vulnerable groups leaves indigenous and minority women underserved, even as Senate leaders acknowledged ongoing gender-based violence in Mexico.