Health Network of Latin American and Caribbean Women: Public Statement
Given the heinous murders of women in recent days in Mexico, affecting among other women, advocates and human rights activists Marisela Escobedo and Susana Chavez, Health Network of Latin American and Caribbean Women, RSMLAC , as a regional movement that articulates the health of women, expresses anger, frustration and anger against the new violence macho continue to form the painful statistics on crimes against women in that country.
Mexico, however, is not the only scenario where every day women and girls, in the widest diversity, continue to be killed, tortured, raped, maimed, trafficked, abused and humiliated by simply because they were. In every corner of our planet, we see every day the existence of the brutal violence that seeks to subjugate women and subordinate to patriarchal power, even through death.
And for this to continue happening, there many leaders: States that fail and fail in their duty to safeguard the lives and human rights of women enshrined, ineffective justice systems and corrupt repeatedly failing to identify, prosecute and punish perpetrators, and a whole society that has allowed the use and abuse of female body, objectified as mere object. A society that, above all, has been normalized and naturalized the existence of gender-based violence as if it were a circumstance characteristic of being a woman.
Mexico is a case study, such as Guatemala and other nations in our region, where for years we have been witnessing the most brutal escalation of violence against women, a phenomenon that can not be detached from the exacerbation of social conflicts in the context of neoliberal capitalist globalization, and where an increase in femicide is a very clear indicator of the intensification of violence material and symbolic that falls on women's bodies.
In this context, it must make it clear that organized crime gangs drug trafficking, its close collusion with the apparatus of power, plus the implementation of national security policies to address the crime that been developed as military occupation and territory police, have done nothing but deepen the practice of gender-based violence with a cruelty rarely known, and whose victims are mostly poor young women.
And, meanwhile, human rights defenders are particularly harassed, threatened and killed, in an attempt to silence their voices, however, always remain in our memories.
Therefore:
· We an URGENT CALL TO ACTION REGIONAL STANDING TO DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT PUT A STOP THE VIOLENCE SEXIST, deliver all necessary protection and redress for victims and their families, severely punish the culprits. And progress also to socio-cultural transformations necessary to denature the violence against women by addressing the ethical and political challenge of deconstructing the power systems today combine to make gender-based violence a daily occurrence.
• We ask also to get urgent letters of protest to the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, urging him to fulfill his duty bound to protect the lives and rights of women and girls as required by human rights instruments to which Mexico is a signatory. E-mail for these purposes is: correofjch@presidencia.gob.mx .
· can use this statement as a basis for drafting their letters.
· Give a copy of these letters to the presidents of their countries, as well as the minister or director of Women.
• This Monday, January 17, at 10 am, finally, has called for a WORLD PROTEST AGAINST THE EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES OF MEXICO. It's another opportunity to convey the letter to Pres. Calderón and to sensitize public opinion.
For the life of women, femicide Enough, enough of macho violence!
Santiago, Chile, January 13, 2011
Health Network of Latin American and Caribbean Women (LACWHN)
Rede Feminista de Saúde Direitos Reprodutivos Sexuais e Direitos, Brazil
Gender Equality, Citizenship, Work and Family, AC, Mexico
Women and Health Collective, Dominican Republic
Educational and Community Based Support (BECA), Paraguay
Tierra Viva, Guatemala
Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (SOFA), Haiti
If Women , Colombia
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