The UN and UN Women condemned the harassment against President Claudia Sheinbaum and demanded not to normalize gender violence or re-victimize women.
Mexico City, November 5 (However).- The United Nations Organization (HIM) condemned this Wednesday the harassment suffered by the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo during a route what he did in Historic Center of the Mexico City. With this, he called not normalize in minimize the violence against the women in the country.
The incident occurred yesterday afternoon, when a man approached the federal president while she was walking among citizens and touched her without her consent. The event took place a few meters from the National Palace and was captured on video, which generated wide dissemination on social networks.
Following the event, the organization’s national headquarters expressed its solidarity with the Chief Executive and reiterated that gender violence continues to be a priority on its human rights agenda.
“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.
The UN in 🇲🇽 expresses its solidarity with the President @Claudiashein in the face of the aggression suffered and supports the call of the Secretariat @mujeresgobmx y @ONUMujeresMX. Reaffirms the importance of preventing and condemning all forms of violence against women and guaranteeing their rights
— ONU México (@ONUMX) November 5, 2025
For its part, UN Women affirmed that no form of harassment, harassment or abuse should be tolerated, which is why it stressed that these behaviors represent violations of human rights. Furthermore, he reiterated that those who commit them must be denounced, punished and their acts definitively eliminated.
The organization also supported the position of the Mexican Women’s Secretariat, which urged not to trivialize or use the case to exercise revictimization. With this, the agency asked to prevent this type of events from being used for political or media purposes.
Given the facts, Sheinbaum announced that he filed a complaint with the Sexual Crimes Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico City against the aggressor. Likewise, he demanded an apology from the media that broadcast images of the attack without considering its violent nature.
The president also rejected the statements of opposition political figures who accused her of “fabricating” the aggression suffered with the purpose of diverting media attention from the situation of violence in Michoacán.
“It sounds like when a woman arrives at the Public Ministry and they tell her, ‘why were you wearing a short dress?’ (…) Did the President ask for it by walking, or how?”, she highlighted, mentioning that these accusations reproduce revictimization practices that many women face when reporting acts of violence.
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), more than 70 percent of Mexican women over 15 years of age have experienced some type of violence, whether sexual, psychological or physical. The same organization reported that 15.5 percent have suffered sexual harassment, a figure five times higher than that registered among men.
Given this, the President announced that the head of the Women’s Secretariat, Citlalli Hernández, will review the classification of the crime of harassment in the 32 states, to determine in which states attacks such as those of which she was a victim are punished. He also announced that a campaign will be presented to prevent this type of violence.
“We are going to run a campaign, not related to the President but to all Mexican women. There must be respect for women, in every sense, and harassment is a crime,” she insisted.
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— Women’s Secretariat (@mujeresgobmx) November 5, 2025
In Mexico City, the Women Line is a specialized service provided by *0311 Locatel, to detect and address violence against women and girls in the country’s capital, through legal, psychological and medical advice, via telephone and chat.