Juliana G. Quintanilla
Photo: Agrup Productions and Miracles. AC Feminist Projects
Feminists struggle we have proposed have been articulated through the National Pact for life, liberty and the rights of women. We had the opportunity to know them in fights and demonstrations, gatherings and meetings for years. Last week the Independent Human Rights Commission hosted a meeting of women's organizations Morelos Javier Hernandez of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico (OHCHR) in the La Commune to discuss issues as those discussed in Xalapa in the second session d the National Pact for Life, Liberty and the Rights of Women, and in particular the need to develop a diagnosis that includes severe state of femicide and scaling violations of human rights of women. Both meetings showed important aspects for the authorities, go unnoticed or are invisible. The 177 women from 85 organizations in 18 states of the Republic, gathered in the city of Xalapa 4 and February 5, 2011, held the second national meeting in order to conduct an annual review of activities, analyze the current situation right to decide on state and national levels and to define new strategies and action plan for this year. In the period 2008-2010 were approved 17 local constitutional amendments limiting or preventing the exercise of one of our fundamental rights: the right to decide about our bodies and our lives by criminalizing women for an abortion, even when it comes to product rape. The path followed by these reforms have come to the imprisonment of women, not only those who freely exercise their right to decide, but also women suffering spontaneous abortions (involuntary) as we found in various states of the country. The State, from its three branches, still no clarity about its role in a secular state and law. Continues to impede the exercise of the rights of women, condemning them to a latent death penalty, where your breathing to feel their helplessness and powerlessness against an excessive exercise of power.
As we documented in Morelos and in our country, constitutional reforms and how to apply the laws and public policies are a clear sign of institutional violence that we reject with all our forces and against which continue to act until a truly democratic state of equal justice. In this sense, it is vital to maintain the struggle to defend the right to choose and freedom of women criminalized for exercising their right to decide on his body. Defending the secular state and against the interference of any church trying to impose its values \u200b\u200bon all citizens. To achieve a dignified life, with freedom, autonomy, decision-making power over our lives as a way to develop fully as individuals. This struggle women's faces on the offensive on the right as part of a crackdown on more sectors of society and aims to the subjugation of the whole population and is manifested most clearly in the brutal blow to the Mexican Electricians Union (SME ), a union that has been a symbol of struggle and resistance of the workers in the country. Therefore, a relationship between feminism and unionism has been recognized as a priority, we have promoted it at different levels in Morelos. That is why the feminist meeting expressed full support and solidarity with the struggle of the Mexican Electricians Union and in particular of women working in the SME, who are active part of this Covenant, reiterating the need to respect their right to employment and decent wages. It strongly rejected the wave of femicide and violence against women, a situation that is exacerbated with the increasing militarization of the country, from the so-called war on drugs serves as a justification for aggression against the population, increasing impunity in these crimes and in the case of women murdered by demanding justice and respect for human rights. That ended with the requirements of an end to the criminalization of women to abort, immediate release of women imprisoned for abortion, respect for the secular state to effectively implement the rights recognized in the Mexican Constitution and ratified the International Convention on Human Rights in Vienna, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women and the decriminalization of abortion throughout the country.
This article was published today, 14 February at the time morelos, opinion section.
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