Josefina Chavez for Notebooks Feminist
The National Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico took place from 14 to 17 October 2010 in Mexico City. Approximately 60 women from several states of Mexico gathered to share about their experience and know what they are facing violence to carry out their work in the various movements, cities and states. This meeting helped to note that levels of violence stemming from the controversial national security policy in its many dimensions, impacting at an alarming life dedicated to women's rights. Intimidation, threats and death are risks and costs in Mexico have to deal with activists committed to defending human rights.
precautionary measures in their application with many problems, but above all suspicion by discredit and mistrust towards the institutions involved in providing this facility. An example of this is that the meeting could not be present Margarita Guadalupe MartÃnez (Liaison and Communication and Training) as the State did not guarantee protection to the city of Mexico. Another recent example is that of students while demonstrating and gunned their way to a forum against the militarization of the federal police in Ciudad Juarez Who's going to protect members of the same police who attacked? Also in the same city Cipriana Jurado (Center for Women Workers' Organization), threatened with death, could not have adequate protection despite the request for precautionary measures, by Amnesty International and Human Rights Commission (NHRC). He had to leave the country. There is a long list of cases to which are added the murder and intimidation against journalists, acts which threaten freedom of expression.
The problem for defenders who are denouncing the abuses and violations of human rights of military and police forces is that the criminalization of their participation. Faced with this reality, what is the alternative? The issue is of high priority for the High Commissioner United Nations, who has recommended the creation of a national mechanism for protection and the adoption of special protocols for investigation of assault.
During Meeting were heard testimony impressive, they put goosebumps. Surprisingly, fortunately still surprising that most participants maintain a high commitment, clarity of the need for continued work in defending human rights against injustice and impunity. The composition of the participants also reflected the plurality of women with very different experiences, backgrounds and movements. Many of them have a long road of struggle.
was a great success the achievement of this national meeting, the background to the given months earlier, when the city of Oaxaca was held in April, Mesoamerican Meeting on Human Rights Defenders. In the proceedings of that meeting emphasized that "information on the specific situation of human rights defenders is still inadequate and is often invisible to the institutions, organizations and movements." Hence, there is agreement on the need to develop diagnostics to find and examine what are the characteristics and specificity of the violence they are facing women human rights defenders in Central America and Mexico.
The key point is visible, and simultaneously contribute to the generation of support for protecting the integrity of women defenders. And on another level also support elements to create real mechanisms of protection. The visibility in this case means recognizing the legitimacy and disseminate their work and their beliefs as well as the correctness of all the struggles and causes that are fighting, the women of Juarez, Atenco, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Triquis, the San Juan Copala, that of Guerrero, Guanajuato, Veracruz and many other states, told their stories, the violence in their homes, in their movements, how they live everyday as hell face where they develop. Of diverse origins, but that yes all equally abused, threatened, harassed. In various sessions, suddenly you hear the silence in solidarity against the pain of loss, of the killings and detentions of their loved ones, for the murdered women as women, the dead who are still fighting for justice the syrup, "New Utopia?
is women who dare to speak out, face to the military and its systematic violations of human rights to the various local police to mark the end to their impunity in the flesh facing increased paramilitaries. The objective is to recognize the contribution of women human rights defenders; join efforts, strengthen links; respond effectively against the risks and attacks by advocacy work, reporting and advocacy. For the coordinators and organizers and the participants is clear that we are facing a rise of authoritarianism, the most conservative and right and that it is present throughout the region are pushing policies that help to set contexts and environments of fear in the population. Hence the importance of the analysis, exchange, to have spaces that allow personal reflection, which in this case takes on a fundamental, the body is the place where the strategy of fear attacks. The body is then free space to recover for rebirth. Building strengths needed passes through the collective recognition in all respects.
The Mexican human rights defenders are the lists of the contents of the daily nightmare, intimidation, threats of all kinds, integrity and freedom, defamation to delegitimize as public spokespersons, violence and obscene verbal attacks, disappearances; media climate justification of aggression by being involved, assault and sexual harassment and derision from the authorities, threats typically include sexual connotations. At the end is death.
When the turn to analyze the causes analysis becomes more complex, an adverse climate for women defenders breathing. The church-state conspiracy, comes out, the impact of national security policies that promote social rupture, the disruption of social movements, human trafficking networks, corruption, violence femicide, misogyny. And much more.
The advantage of tracing the disjointed policies is precisely the realization of this national meeting, the analysis of the situation that pervades the work areas provides both routes, meetings and strength and the need acuerpamiento; together to respond to emergencies, to clothe the persecuted, to give solidarity to those most in need, to keep fighting because the only way things will change, there were flesh and blood. How do you, mate? Asked one woman to another: "I am a sad woman, and live, sadly, every day when I get home at night after the meetings, put loud music and I get to mourn, and every day "
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