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This paper seeks to explore who the Zapatista young women are, as well as their daily life, their differences with older women, and their demands today, 15 years after the Zapatista uprising in 1994. In this paper I used an interpretive approach to study young women in a Zapatista Autonomous Municipality. The results indicate that the young women now participate in decisions related to autonomy, and how they exercise the right to choose whom they marry and when. However, this involvement leads to contradictions that are not always to their advantage. This generation of young Zapatista women will have to struggle to change structures and roles within their families and communities, in order to overcome the gender inequalities that indigenous women have lived in until now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the main purpose to analyze the social programs that helped the reconstruction phase of the disaster in Angangueo, Michoacan, after the flood and landslides surrounding the community. The methodological strategy used in this work was qualitative, using investigation techniques like documentary research, interview and non participant observation. With these tools some programs, implemented by government agencies, were identified. Such programs helped the affected population and are the following: Empleo Temporal (PET) , DICONSA SA de CV “atención a desastres", Hábitat, Ahorro y Subsidio para la Vivienda, Tu Casa, Opciones Productivas, además del Fondo Nacional de Apoyos para Empresas en Solidaridad (FONAES) y el Fondo de Desastres Naturales (FONDEN), the last one financed the majority of the programs implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on data on a very wide spectrum of behavior, attitudes and stereotypes through which gender discrimination manifests itself, this paper introduces and sketches in broad strokes the current situation of gender equality and gender violence in elementary and secondary schools in Mexico. The sample included 395 public elementary and secondary schools nation. wide; questionnaires were applied to 26 319 boys and girls. Among the most important findings are that: a) two thirds of the boys and the girls reported having been physically assaulted in the last two years; b) 6.3% of the boys and girls said spontaneously that the first thing they would change about their school would be to reduce violence, and c) that psychological aggression has the highest incidence and is directed towards both boys and girls, but has a greater effect on the latter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]