Mexico Supreme Court Rules on Human Rights: Constitution Prevails Over International Treaties CNN Mexico
go to original September 4, 2013

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJ) approved a new jurisprudential approach which recognizes that human rights contained in international treaties to which Mexico is a party have the same status as the Constitution, but if the Constitution restricts any of those rights, it should prevail.

In order to resolve an apparently contradictory legal position, by 10 votes in favor and 1 against, the full court made an interpretation of Article 1 of the Constitution, which was amended in June 2011 and which established that in Mexico "all persons enjoy the rights recognized by the Constitution and international treaties to which the Mexican State is a party."

The same amendment prescribed in its second paragraph that "the rules on human rights shall be interpreted in accordance with the Constitution and international treaties favoring persons at all the time with the broadest protection."

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