INMUJERES DF
January 12, 2011
· violence femicide is not a priority for some states in the country: the message
With 20 votes in favor, 11 against and 2 abstentions, the National System to Prevent, Treat, Punishment and Eradication Violence decided to declare inadmissible the application of violence alert gender in the State of Mexico by the cases of femicide.
This determination, without attachment to an awareness of gender, and ethical responsibility to respect human rights of women and girls, was ignoring all international treaties on human rights of women and conventions our country has signed in the matter, and ignoring the obligation of Women's Institutes across the country to defend and promote human rights of women and girls.
This decision shows that gross violations of human rights of women in our country are not a priority for most states, those who serve you away immediately and seek to establish urgent action to prevent violence against women and girls prefer to protect the political interests of their rulers.
The application of gender alert issued by the National Citizens' Watch Femicide and the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights of Women was supported with official data from State of Mexico (Procuraduría General Justice of the State Human Rights Commission of the State, among others) demonstrates that there are alarming levels of violence against women, a systematic pattern of violence femicide and a context of impunity in these cases.
Among the disturbing facts that stood out to support the request, are those provided by its own Office of the State of Mexico which reported 4773 allegations of rape in a year and a half, and 922 intentional homicides committed against women between January 2005 and August 2010. Of the 922 women's voluntary manslaughter, stresses that the authorities ignore or are unaware of who the murderer in 56.72% of the crimes and only in cases where the murder was committed by a known individual (spouse, relative or neighbor), the authority the identity the perpetrator (35.47%), contrary to this information, the authorities have sought to reduce the problem of femicide the family.
femicide violence documented by the organizations mentioned refers to the 10 most populated municipalities these being: Ecatepec, Nezahualcoyotl, Tlalnepantla, Toluca, Chimalhuacan, Naucalpan, Tultitlan, Ixtapaluca, Valle de Chalco and Cuautitlan Izcalli.
worth mentioning also that the Fourth Report on the Situation of Human Rights of Migrants in Transit in Mexico, the State of Mexico is one of three states in the country with higher levels of violence against this sector.
Despite solid and convincing arguments in favor of gender alert statement, voting with the participation of the representatives of the mechanisms for the advancement of women in the states, determined that the declaration was inappropriate.
About irrationally and uncompromisingly opposed to the approval of the preliminary investigation to the declaration of alert referred to a perceived lack of certainty of the statistics above, partisan manipulation, the use of women as a pretext for attacking the Governor and a clear politicization as background to this matter.
The representative of the National Council of Women and Social Welfare of the State of Mexico, Lorena Cruz Sánchez and general counsel of the state, far from arguing the merits, were implemented to discredit the actions of the Executive Secretariat of the National System to Prevent , Treat, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, noting that the actions were biased, because the notice of the warning order was made on working days and without having conducted a thorough investigation on the accusations referred by social organizations . These were real arguments legaloides.
For its part, the Director General of the Institute of Women of Mexico City, Martha Lucia Micher Camarena, defended the merits of the request and clarified that this figure is not a prosecution for the State of Mexico or for governor but an administrative procedure and research preventive searches to form a group of experts on gender that would give their feedback to subsequently analyze the admissibility of the declaration of domestic violence warning. It also stated emphatically that the preliminary investigation seeks to ensure safety women victims of violence, which are specified by the set of emergency measures that the government, if any, would implement to address and eradicate violence femicide in a given territory.
Martha Lucia Micher Camarena drew the attention of the raison d'être of institutions and bodies of women in the states to defend and promote human rights of women, which have cost himself a long struggle over 30 years and called not to vote to break the law, but to act in keeping with the General Law of Access of Women to a Life Free of Violence, as well as various international treaties on protection of women's human rights and in accordance with the recent ruling in 2009 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the case Gonzales and other "Cotton Field."
The Representative of the Institute of Women of Mexico City said that the role of representatives and members of the National System for Prevention, Care, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, is to defend rights of all women, regardless of partisan considerations and interests of government. Similarly, said that the ultimate meaning of the warning must seek access to speedy justice, effectively and with due care for women and girls, namely, to facilitate, in a context of systematic violence-an effective mechanism to halt the gross violations of rights of women and girls.
worth mentioning that the National System for Prevention, Care, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women is composed of the Secretary of the Interior, State mechanisms for the advancement of women and bodies and autonomous agencies of the Federal Government.
The representatives who voted against the warning include, among others Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes, Campeche, Coahuila, Colima, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas; while among those who argued their origin are also of this Institute, the Institute of Women of Oaxaca and Jalisco, the National Institute Women, FEVIMTRA, Secretary of Social Development, the Ministry of Public Security, the Attorney General's Office, and finally there were two abstentions under the Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women in the States of Baja California and Guanajuato.
gender The alert, according to the Access Act, is to ensure the safety of women and the cessation of violence against them. Has been approved, the Government of Mexico would be required to implement preventive measures, security and justice, confronting and stamping out violence femicide, as well as prepare special reports on the area and the behavior of the indicators of violence against women and allocate the necessary budgetary resources to meet the contingency of warning, among other measures, however, to be declared inadmissible, the local government is not obligated to do it, to the detriment of the State of Mexico.
Institute For Women in Mexico City, the negative to start the process of investigating the facts evidenced by social organizations on violence femicide in Mexico State, is an affront that perpetuates impunity risk in women who already live in the State of Mexico.
How can you justify the infringement of the law with a bleak picture so clear and systematic violence for women and girls in the State of Mexico? What grief can be prepared by the family to the reaffirmation of impunity and lack of interest in eradicating this problem?
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