Centros de Justicia para las Mujeres — Mexico's One-Stop Justice Centres for Women Survivors of Violence

Mexico's Centros de Justicia para las Mujeres (CJM) are one-stop centres that co-locate a state prosecutor's office, psychological and legal support, and often a women's institute or government secretariat under one roof. Promoted nationally since around 2010, the model has grown to 76 operating centres across all 32 Mexican federal entities as of mid-2025, most commonly attached to state Attorneys General's offices (64% of centres).

The centres now handle large volumes: INEGI's official CJM statistical programme put the number of women served in 2024 at 638,720, up from 598,437 in 2023, with roughly 1,750 women a day attending the network nationally — a rise of about 30% in daily attendance since 2019, when 782 women a day used the then 55 centres. Psychological violence is consistently the most-reported violence type, ahead of physical and sexual violence.

A 2026 SciELO literature review synthesising 12 academic studies (2014-2024) found that despite gender-perspective training for staff, effectiveness is compromised by institutional response limited by structure and budget, insufficient resources with weak civil-society participation, and institutional violence by public servants attributed to persistent androcentrism; a separate study found physical spaces often lack privacy and comfort. CJM is therefore a large, officially monitored model whose institutional reach has not automatically translated into consistently effective, survivor-centred practice.