Access to decent work and ICTs as human rights in Mexico: an institutional perspective
Abstract
In 2011, the Mexican State carried out the constitutional reform of human rights. This has been welcomed by different international human rights organizations around the world. However, the main challenges of this reform are in how to make effective the human rights of all people. Working on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods we analyze the extent to which the Mexican state has guaranteed the human rights of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and decent work to poor people. We conclude that the Mexican state has not been able to guarantee those fundamental rights since its institutional framework does not empower people to demand specific actions by the government to guarantee their human rights effectively.
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