This Wednesday, the United Nations Organization (HIM) condemned the harassment that President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo experienced yesterday while walking and greeting citizens on a brief walking tour of the Historic Center of Mexico City, a few meters from the National Palace.
Likewise, the organization called to “not normalize or minimize” violence against women in Mexico.
“The UN in Mexico expresses its solidarity with President Claudia Sheinbaum in the face of the aggression suffered,” the organization stated in a message on X.
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Separately, UN Women stressed that “violence against women cannot be normalized or minimized” and noted that “Any form of harassment, harassment or abuse is a violation of human rights and a crime that must be reported, punished and eradicated.”
In addition, she expressed her support for the call made on Tuesday by the Mexican Women’s Secretariat not to “trivialize” this type of violence, nor use it to re-victimize.
The Women’s Secretariat urged in a statement “that this event not be used to re-victimize any woman, girl or adolescent who has suffered an act of violence.”
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Sheinbaum rejects revictimization exercised against him
This morning, Sheinbaum stated in her daily conference that she filed a complaint against the subject who harassed her, in addition to expecting an apology from the media that spread photographs of the attack, taken from a video that went viral on social networks.
The president also rejected the revictimization exercised against her by opposition political figures who accuse her of “fabricating” the attack to divert media attention from the violence in Michoacán.
“It sounds like when a woman comes to the Public Ministry and they say, ‘why were you wearing a short dress?’ (…) Did the president ask for it by walking, or how?” he questioned.
A day earlier, when Sheinbaum was walking through the center of the capital and greeting some citizens, A man in an apparent drunken state approached her, tried to kiss her on the neck and then hug her from behind.
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Hours later, federal authorities confirmed that the aggressor, identified as Uriel Rivera Martínez, was arrested and referred to the Sexual Crimes Prosecutor’s Office in Mexico City.
The National Conference of Governors (Conago) also joined in condemning the attack, stating in a statement that “This fact is a painful reminder” that women, even in positions of high public responsibility, continue to “face sexist attitudes, physical attacks and different forms of violence.”
More than 70% of Mexican women over 15 years of age have experienced at least one type of violence, such as sexual (48%), psychological (52%) or physical (35%), according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
The percentage of women in Mexico who have experienced sexual harassment, touching, exhibitionism or attempted rape is 15.5%, five times higher than that of men, 3.2%, according to a 2024 survey by Inegi.
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