It opened a new stage in the protection of children in the country as it gave special attention to vulnerable groups and saw children as right holders. Introducing the report of Mexico, Laura Vargas, Director of the National System of the Comprehensive Development of the Family, said that the General Law on the Rights of Children and Adolescents, adopted in December 2014, represented the most important legislative progress in the area of childhood in the past 25 years. Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, noted the new legal developments in the country, and the cooperation with international human rights mechanisms which had recently led to an agreement on Consular Protection Services for migrant children. The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fourth and fifth periodic report of Mexico on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
