Half of Mexico's Minors Don't Have Access to Health Care, Many Live in Poverty Elizabeth Velasco C. - La Jornada
go to original June 24, 2013

The Municipal Traffic Light for the Rights of Children, devised by Odisea AC [Organization for Social Development and Education for All] with data from Inegi (The National Institute of Statistics and Geography) and Coneval (The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy), reveals the inequities that children and adolescents suffer from in 14 states of the country.

In the country, half of minors, from newborns to 17 years of age, don’t have access to healthcare, whereas in 260 municipalities - of the 483 which will have local elections next month - more than have of them live in extreme poverty, reveals the Municipal Traffic Light for the Rights of Children.

The document, developed by Odisea AC, reflects the situation faced by minors in 14 states, in light of elections this coming July, in order to highlight the inequality gaps that limit the guarantee of minors’ rights to survival, development, protection and social participation.

Through 27 indicators organized into those four rights groups, the Municipal Traffic Light... shows the great inequalities that children suffer in our country.

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Translated by Chris Brown

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