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• Voice of the abused. Independent Online, 2 May 2008. Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, a native of Cancun, will tell you that once you scratch the surface of this idyllic tourist gem, the sordid underbelly will shock even the most toughened observer.
• Mexican senators propose raising minimum marriage age to prevent child abuse. International Herald Tribune, 28 March 2008. Nearly 400,000 Mexican children between 12 and 17 are married or living with romantic partners, said Sen. Guillermo Tamborrel, a member of the ruling National Action Party who wrote the bill.
  
• Mexico City starts grope-free buses for women. The Mail and Guardian, 23 January 2008. Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city's packed public-transportation system.
  
• Key Video Evidence Blocked in Child Sex Ring Trial. InterPress Service News Agency, 05 September 2007. Prosecutors in a case involving the sexual abuse of children in Mexico have failed to hand over to the courts 10 video recordings and 70 photos that show the accused, who claims to have friends in high places, in compromising circumstances with minors.
• 16,000 Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation. Inter Press Service News Agency, 13 August 2007. The child pornography and commercial sexual exploitation industry enjoys total impunity in the Mexican capital, according to a report by the Mexico City Human Rights Commission.

• Mexico: addressing family and sexual violence through public policy. UNFPA
• Llaguno Aguilar S E, Ortíz Ramirez O, /Tarjectas de consulta, CRP: //Conceptos/Referencias/Precedimientos, / InMujeres-DF , Ipas Mexico, Gobierno Del Distrito Federal, Mexico, 2006. Permission received to publish, September 2006
• The Second Assault: Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico, Human Rights Watch, 2006
• Modelo Integrado para la Prevención y Atención de la Violencia Familiar y Sexual, Manual Operativo, Centro Nacional de Equidad de Genero y Salud Reproductiva, 2004 (pdf format, 700 kb)
• Atención Médica a Personas Violadas, Centro Nacional de Equidad de Genero y Salud Reproductiva, 2004 (pdf format, 342 kb)
• Modelo Integrado para la Prevención y Atención de la Violencia Familiar y Sexual, Planeación, Centro Nacional de Equidad de Genero y Salud Reproductiva, 2004
• Women of the World: Latin America and the Caribbean Progress Report, Center for Reproductive Rights, 2000
• Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives:Latin America and the Caribbean, Center for Reproductive Rights 1997
• Informe Nacional sobre la Violencia y la Salud en México (pdf format, 383 kb)
• Ministry of Health, Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health, Mexico
• State Violence Against Detained Women in Mexico: The San Salvador Atenco Case is available in Español and English

• Violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas en la Ciudad de México; Partner Violence against Pregnant Women in Mexico City, Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova, Verónica Pámanes-González, Deborah L Billings, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola, Rev Saúde Pública;41(4):582-90, 2007
• When I Was in My Home I Suffered a Lot: Mexican Women's Descriptions of Abuse in Family of Origin. Belknap RA, Cruz N. Health Care Women Int; 28(5): 506-22;2007
• Partner violence against pregnant women in Mexico City. Doubova Dubova SV, Pámanes-González V, Billings DL, Torres-Arreola Ldel P. Rev Saude Publica; 41(4): 582-90. 2007
• Prevalence and correlates of adolescent dating violence: Baseline study of a cohort of 7960 male and female Mexican public school students. Rivera-Rivera L, Allen-Leigh B, Rodríguez-Ortega G, Chávez-Ayala R, Lazcano-Ponce E. Prev Med 2007
• Schiavon Ermani R, Jimenez Villanueva C H, Importancia de la exploracion anogenital en la evaluacion del nino y del adolescente con sospecha de abuso sexual. Revision de la Clasificacion Internacional. /Acta Pediatrica de Mesico, /22(6) Nov-Dec, 2001. Permission received to publish, September 2006
• Modelo Integrado para la Prevención y Atención de la Violencia Familiar y Sexual, Estrategia, Centro Nacional de Equidad de Genero y Salud Reproductiva, 2004
• Commentarios A La Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-90-SSAI-1999. Prestacion de servicious de salud. Criterios para la atencion medica de la violencia familiar, Programa Mujer y Salud, 2003
• Constructing Access to Legal Abortion Services in Mexico City, Billings D., et al, Reproductive Health Matters, 10 (19): 86-94, 2002 (pdf format, 116 kb)