Country Guide to Human Rights and Business in Mexico
Mexico has experienced accelerated economic growth in recent years. This growth, however, has often resulted in adverse human rights impacts across a range issues, sectors and regions and has especially affected at-risk groups, such as women, human rights defenders, and indigenous peoples.
The Mexico Country Guide to Human Rights and Business provides a steppingstone towards a Mexico more focused on the human rights impacts of economic activities, and on human development. To this end, the guide provides information and recommendations aimed at helping companies respect human rights.
We hope that this guide will foster a national debate on the main opportunities and challenges regarding business and human rights in Mexico.
The Mexico Country Guide is based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and aims to help realise the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
The guidance not only provides a preliminary analysis on corporate behaviour in Mexico, it is also a tool to assess progress on business and human rights in the future. Hence, the Mexico Country Guide does not aim to be a final product, nor a final conclusion about the conditions of the country.
Facilitating dialogue
While intended to guide companies, the guide also aims to support the production of the Mexican National Program on Business and Human Rights (NPBH) by helping government identify the main impacts of business and ways to address these through the NPBH.
The guide may also be used by civil society, who can use it as a source of information, for dissemination of their own research and recommendations, as resource to advise governments and businesses, and as tool to facilitate dialogue.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) have supported the efforts of our partners, the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (Secretaría de la Gobernación — SEGOB) and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs’ Human Security Division, in producing a Country Guide for Human Rights and Businesses in Mexico.
The Country Guide is part of a larger cooperation agreement to provide technical advice on the development of the Mexican National Program on Business and Human Rights (NPBH). The guide was completed using publicly available information from international institutions, local NGOs, governmental agencies, businesses, media and universities, among others, from June to October 2016. The sources are identified based on their expertise and relevance to the Mexican context, as well as their timeliness and impartiality.
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