A Mexican government department has launched inter-institutional actions aimed at ensuring a life free of violence and well-being for more than 18 million girls and adolescents living in the country. In collaboration with the Inter-institutional Group for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy (ENAPEA), the strategy "Girls and Adolescents Free and Safe" focuses its efforts and allocates resources from the Fund for the Welfare and Advancement of Women (FOBAM) to 50 municipalities with the highest number of cases of sexual violence, forced unions (child marriages), and adolescent pregnancies, thereby strengthening prevention and victim support. Through the "Girls and Adolescents Free and Safe" strategy, this year, 19 Women's Institutes in the Federal Entities (IMEF), located within the 50 municipalities, will receive packages with materials for nine types of interventions: community-based, house-to-house, school-based for girls, boys, and adolescents, with mothers, fathers, and caregivers, school-based for teaching staff, with health personnel, for public servants in the municipalities, in public spaces, and at LIBRE Centers. On this issue, the head of the Secretariat of Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora, stated that strategies to combat it must be implemented with a long-term vision: "We want all these advances to translate into girls and adolescents who are born and grow during this six-year term having a much better life projection and full exercise of rights, a future of peace, well-being, and happiness than perhaps we, our grandmothers, and our mothers had." As part of the reinforcement of ENAPEA, the Secretariat is part of five working groups that promote substantive equality, a gender perspective, and actions on the ground: Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Training, Zero Mother Girls, Communication and Knowledge Management, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Monitoring and Follow-up of ENAPEA Indicators. Additionally, the Women's Line 079, option 1, launched by the department this year, becomes the key channel of this alliance to timely attend to and channel women at risk by providing them with vital information to break taboos and ensure the full exercise of sexual and reproductive rights. These actions are complemented by work in the educational sphere. The Government of Mexico, through the Secretariat of Women, reinforces the frontal fight against sexual violence and adolescent pregnancy through the National Strategy for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy (ENAPEA). In collaboration with the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), the Secretariat of Women carries out two crucial initiatives: On the one hand, the massive dissemination of the Women's Rights Pamphlet—which establishes the right of girls to the autonomy of their lives and bodies—in basic-level schools. On the other hand, in conjunction with SEP, awareness campaigns on the severity of sexual abuse and child maltreatment are also implemented under the premise "I see you, I believe you, and I take care of you," which are carried out in all basic education schools in the country to prevent violence. Furthermore, Agreement 25/09/25, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), establishes the mandatory guidelines for the prevention, care, detection, and intervention in cases of sexual violence in the school environment. Through these cross-cutting actions, the Secretariat of Women works every day so that girls can live in peace, be happy, and have a life free from violence.
