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Self Report 2018

The self-report on WHS Commitments below is organized according to the 24 transformations of the Agenda for Humanity. It is based on commitments pledged at the time of report submission. Click on the 'Expand' symbol to expand each section and read the reporting inputs by transformation.

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  • 2D
    Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

    Individual Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • México se compromete a continuar promoviendo el fortalecimiento, la promoción y el respeto del Derecho Internacional Humanitario asociando, en el ámbito de su competencia, a la Cruz Roja mexicana, teniendo en cuenta su función de auxiliar de los poderes públicos y su cometido a favor del Derecho Internacional Humanitario.
    • Advocacy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • México se compromete a erradicar la violencia sexual y por razón de género.
    • Operational
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • México se compromete a movilizar y sensibilizar a la comunidad internacional para lograr un compromiso voluntario de los cinco miembros permanentes del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas para abstenerse de recurrir al veto en casos de atrocidades en masa.
    • Policy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

    Core Commitments (4)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Commit to speak out and systematically condemn serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of international human rights law and to take concrete steps to ensure accountability of perpetrators when these acts amount to crimes under international law.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Implement a coordinated global approach to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis contexts, including through the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-based Violence in Emergencies.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
    1. Highlight the concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2017 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures.

    Other-2D

    On September 22nd, within the 72UNGA (United Nations General Assembly) high level week framework, on behalf of the Government of Mexico, Undersecretary for Multilateral Issues and Human Rights, Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas participated in the High Level Meeting “Preventing and Ending Mass Atrocities: Tools for More Effective UN Security Council Action”, in order to refrain the commitment of Mexico to keep promoting the French-Mexican Initiative to Restrict the Use of Veto in cases of mass atrocities.

    IHL and IHRL compliance and accountability

    • Continue the active work of the Inter-Secretarial Commission on International Humanitarian Law.

    The Interministerial Commission on International Humanitarian Law (CIDIH-Mexico) followed up the internal evaluation process on the possible registration of the Walled City of Campeche in the List of Cultural Property under Enhanced Protection of the UNESCO Convention of 1954.

    • Continue conducting an annual specialized course in International Humanitarian Law at the national level directed to national authorities and the population in general.

    The CIDIH-Mexico organized the 8th Annual Specialized Course on International Humanitarian Law at the National level on November 6 and 7, 2017. The course brought together 201 participants from the federal public administration, as well as academic institutions and civil society organizations.

    2. A. How are you measuring progress toward achieving your commitments? Only the categories selected by the organisation will be seen below.
    • Through existing, internal systems or frameworks for monitoring, reporting and/or evaluation.
    3. A. Please select no more than 3 key challenges faced in implementing the commitments related to this transformation. Only the categories selected by the organisation will be seen below.
    • Adherence to standards and/or humanitarian principles
    • IHL and IHRL compliance and accountability
    4. Highlight actions planned for 2018 to advance implementation of your commitments in order to achieve this transformation.

    Mexico will continue making strenuous efforts to encourage all Member States of the United Nations to join the French-Mexican Initiative, and therefore, prevent human rights violations, crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocides and their consequent humanitarian impact, and also to contribute to the effectiveness, legitimacy, and accountability of the Security Council in the fulfillment of its obligations, without the need to amend the UN Charter.

    5. What steps or actions are needed to make collective progress to achieve this transformation?

    Enhance the importance of political will to the implementation of the French-Mexican initiative.

    Keywords

    IHL compliance and accountability

  • 2E
    Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity

    Joint Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Mexico pledges to continue to promote ratification of and accession to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention by States. It remains gravely concerned about the continued use of anti-personnel mines and strongly condemn any such use by any actor. It further pledges to uphold its commitment to meet the humanitarian goal of the Convention – a world free from the use and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines, and to put an end to the suffering caused by anti-personnel mines through their complete eradication.


    • Advocacy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

    Partners: Joint commitment on behalf of Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Germany, Guatemala, Mexico, Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, Ukraine and Chile.

    Individual Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • México se compromete a continuar trabajando en los diversos foros multilaterales y regionales que abordan el tema del desarme nuclear para lograr el cumplimiento de la Promesa Humanitaria respecto a llenar el vacío legal y así lograr estigmatizar y prohibir las armas nucleares con miras a su eliminación.
    • Policy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • México se compromete a seguir exigiendo que todos aquellos en posesión de armas nucleares cumplan sus compromisos y obligaciones en materia de desarme nuclear y a consolidar un proceso diplomático para prohibir las armas nucleares.
    • Advocacy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

    Core Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    1. Highlight the concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2017 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures.

    • To continue promoting the fulfillment of the Humanitarian Promise in the Conference on Disarmament, the First Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations and in the new five-year review cycle of the Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) that will begin in 2017

    In 2016, Mexico participated in the two sessions of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) established by resolution 70/33 of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, with the mandate to substantively address new norms and legal measures on nuclear disarmament.

    In its final report, the OEWG recommended convening a conference in 2017 to negotiate a binding instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons, which was held in New York in the same year.

    • Promote a greater number of countries supporting the Humanitarian Initiative, which currently has the support of 127 countries.

    The countries that supported the initiative participated in the Conference to negotiate a binding instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons, which was held in New York (27-31 March and 15 June-7July 2017), with the participation of 135 accredited States, in addition to International organizations.

    • Actively work for the proper development and results of the Open Composition Group established pursuant to resolution 70/33 entitled "Progress in the multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament."​

     

    • Continue to promote compliance with General Assembly resolution 68/32, which decided to convene, no later than 2018, a high-level international conference of the United Nations on nuclear disarmament to review the progress made in this regard. respect.

    2. A. How are you measuring progress toward achieving your commitments? Only the categories selected by the organisation will be seen below.
    • Through existing, internal systems or frameworks for monitoring, reporting and/or evaluation.
    • By reporting to, or using reports prepared for, UN principal organs, UN governing boards, or other international bodies
    • Through multi-stakeholder processes or initiatives (e.g. IASC, Grand Bargain, Charter for Change, etc).
    3. A. Please select no more than 3 key challenges faced in implementing the commitments related to this transformation. Only the categories selected by the organisation will be seen below.
    • Adherence to standards and/or humanitarian principles

  • 4B
    Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

    Individual Commitments (5)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • México se compromete a generar enfoques de acción preventiva que coadyuven a la disminución del riesgo ante desastres por fenómenos de origen natural o humano, fortalecidos con los conocimientos de vulnerabilidad existentes en las comunidades, y a asegurar que la prevención frente a los riesgos naturales existentes y los producidos por el cambio climático o la acción del hombre formen parte de la gestión integral de riesgo.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • México se compromete a privilegiar los aspectos proactivos de la atención de emergencias y desastres causados por fenómenos naturales o humanos, anticipándose eficazmente a los escenarios de crisis y fortaleciendo la corresponsabilidad entre todos los sectores- público, privado, académico, sociedad civil. Para lograr este fin, México incluirá instrumentos innovadores para la administración de situaciones catastróficas y la prevención como una herramienta de mejora continua hacia donde debe ir evolucionando la gestión integral del riesgo.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • México se compromete a promover entre todos los integrantes del Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil la implementación del Marco de Acción de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastre, reforzando las capacidades locales de resistencia y recuperación ante desastres con un enfoque primordialmente preventivo estableciendo estrategias con la participación de la Cruz Roja mexicana.
    • Advocacy
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • México se compromete a promover la implementación del Marco de Sendai y atender la dimensión de la prevención, en sus distintas etapas, así como fortalecer la gestión integral del riesgo, en particular, apoyar la continuidad de operaciones antes, durante y después de los desastres, fortaleciendo la preparación y resiliencia, en el marco de la Plataforma Global 2017.
    • Advocacy
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • México se compromete a unirse a esfuerzos globales para lograr el compromiso adquirido por la comunidad internacional hacia el 2020, para aumentar el número de ciudades y asentamientos humanos con políticas y planes integrados para la mitigación del cambio climático, la adaptación a él y la resiliencia frente a los desastres, en consonancia con el Marco de Sendai (párrafo 34, AAAA).
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    Core Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Commit to accelerate the reduction of disaster and climate-related risks through the coherent implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as other relevant strategies and programs of action, including the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
    • Commit to improve the understanding, anticipation and preparedness for disaster and climate-related risks by investing in data, analysis and early warning, and developing evidence-based decision-making processes that result in early action.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    1. Highlight the concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2017 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures.

    Mexico hosted the fifth Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, where advances in the implementation of the Sendai framework were addressed

    2. A. How are you measuring progress toward achieving your commitments? Only the categories selected by the organisation will be seen below.
    • By reporting to, or using reports prepared for, UN principal organs, UN governing boards, or other international bodies
    B. How are you assessing whether progress on commitments is leading toward change in the direction of the transformation?

    With the platform that the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) designed to register advances in the Sendai framework

    3. A. Please select no more than 3 key challenges faced in implementing the commitments related to this transformation. Only the categories selected by the organisation will be seen below.
    • Adherence to standards and/or humanitarian principles
    • Multi-stakeholder coordination
    • Preparedness
    4. Highlight actions planned for 2018 to advance implementation of your commitments in order to achieve this transformation.

    • Actively participate in the Regional Platform of the Americas.
    • Continue implementing the Marco de Sendai at all levels of society.

    Keywords

    Disaster Risk Reduction