▲ Tania Ramírez, director of Redim, and three actresses dressed as queen magicians delivered the organization’s 2022 Annual Balance at the National Palace.Photo Jose Antonio Lopez
Fernando Camacho Servin
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday January 7, 2023, p. eleven
In the year that ended, the country’s children and adolescents continued to suffer daily violations of their fundamental rights, as evidenced by the fact that some of the most serious crimes against them –including murder and injuries– increased compared to to 2021, which particularly affects women, warned the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim)
The organization presented its 2022 Annual Balance yesterday, in which it pointed out that minors are one of the most affected sectors among groups that are themselves vulnerable, such as people living in extreme poverty, indigenous people and migrants.
At a press conference, Tania Ramírez, executive director of Redim, highlighted that one of the phenomena that worries the organization the most is the increase in different crimes against children between 2021 and 2022, such as extortion (from 234 to 265 cases, with an increase of 13.2 percent) and homicide (from 2,239 to 2,330, for an increase of 4.1 percent).
Regarding the latter, the specialist highlighted the increase in violence or the intention to commit it, since intentional homicide grew 3.2 percent in the referred period, while murders with firearms rose 3.4 percent.
Similarly, Redim documented that from 2021 to 2022 injuries against children and adolescents also increased (from 12,478 to 16,215, an increase of 29.9 percent) and human trafficking (from 347 documented cases to 403, which implies a percentage increase of 16.1).
Regarding migration, the agency revealed that the number of minors who were repatriated from the United States grew during the study period (23,340 in 2022, equivalent to 10.8 percent more).
In this context, he adds, Mexico “is becoming de facto at the border for Central American migrants and in a ‘safe third country’ for repatriations,” warned Ramírez.
Redim’s analysis shows that indigenous children continue to be more exposed to extreme poverty, since while 27.3 percent of non-indigenous minors are in this precarious condition, in the case of those who belong to indigenous peoples, the index is rises to 57.6 percent.
Yesterday morning, actresses personified as the three magi queens
They appeared at the National Palace to deliver the report to the General Directorate of Citizen Attention of the Presidency of the Republic.
