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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.

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This article was published today, 14 February at the time morelos, opinion section.

Honey In Tea When Fasting

Mexico: Parties and abortion

By Sara Lovera in Word Antigone

Nothing is as funny as watching from far and away the Dicer political leaders, men or women by politicians and emergency times to win votes, sympathies, followers to stay in power.

ago as 18 or 20 years I wrote that in Mexico the decriminalization of abortion would not exist without the support and initiative of the state party or single, who was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

PRI was an Assembly which began in the Assembly with a proposed surface and taken away. Feminists spoke him and a group of them, led by members of TURN undertook the task of bringing the proposal to the Federal District was finally defended and championed by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). This is the nation's capital the first to guarantee the right to terminate a pregnancy from April 2007.

few years earlier from the town hall in the capital's main square we had been forbidden to touch the subject, back in the era of the government of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, however the political situation that offered the absolute closure the government of Guanajuato, allowed to move forward with the known Robles Law, which established for the first time since the Mexican Revolution, a mechanism to enforce legal abortion, that is those exceptions in the criminal code that allowed termination of pregnancy, as in the case of rape.

be struck by the shift in the PRI, anxious and wanting to return to Los Pinos, the country's top leadership, as President of the Republic.

Between 2008 and 2010, many deputies were members of congress militants National Action Party (PAN) that promoted in almost 23 states of the Republic giving civil rights to the fetus and noted that civilian life begins at conception, resulting in a significant move to ban abortion completely and without exception. In 18 states they have succeeded.

The PRI deputies voted these initiatives in dozens of cases. The PRI leadership, embodied by Beatriz Paredes did exit. I heard on television to the leader who respected the plurality, her friends or partners defending the point, while it into agreements with the bishops and with what right could, to be winning elections in various states of the country. She old feminist and liberal, intelligent and friendly, had decided to end their principles in the name of politics and power.

So powerfully striking that the new leadership PRI, which leads the teacher, former governor of the conservative state of Coahuila, Humberto Moreira is opening the debate, saying that he personally agrees with the right to terminate a pregnancy and that women have to say.

Earlier in Puebla local congressman Juan Jose Espinosa, Convergence Party, also was at the right of women. And then after PRD Senator Carlos Navarrete, who does not know more beyond discourse and only, also said he would make a proposal through the House is ruled Manlio Fabio Beltrones.

is no doubt that the topic, with all the promotional campaign, mobilizing women who have made the Covenant for Life, Liberty and the Rights of Women, has hit at least has on the table this huge issue, which has brought dozens of women to prison in recent years. There is no doubt that the mobilization, making the street, the dissemination and organization of women is what makes these positions can not think of leaders on the rights of women and their lives significantly are regular male, exclusionary and undemocratic.

But it is plausible that political pressure from the Covenant, which has now reported in full force as it changes to guide the gaze of dozens of journalists, men and women, which means 23 years in prison for Leslie Karina Díaz Zamora, accused of murder matched in degree of kinship, a figure used by the judges against women in Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Puebla and now in Baja California. There is no exact count but at least 70 women have been accused processed in this way. Only in Hidalgo and Puebla almost 30, is now talking about 25 in Baja California and more than 20 in Guanajuato. Some are in jail.

That march is scheduled for next Friday. A demonstration, a protest, not that quiet attitude of some, who feel they have the truth of women sitting around the table of the Minister of Health on duty or a solicitor. Now women show their faces and take notice. To take care of and policies to win votes speak without conviction, without history, without real interest, because it mobilized and on the street, women are going to demand consistency.

And the most curious. Now the PRI against the PAN alliance with the PRD, in that they are right. Let's see how they fare to and from Oaxaca or Sinaloenses Poblanas with these lies and where shifting skeins for power, anything goes, even get to the water with oil. We'll see.

saralovera@yahoo.com.mx

Bar Charts Of Smoking

Feminicides What are you afraid of the government of the State of Mexico? *

Marta Lamas

brutal murders to occur every day throughout the country. In order to stop them is necessary to clarify what causes them. It has been said that the murders are a kind of hunting women, misogynist hatred product. Perhaps in many cases, yes, but an anthropologist Rita Laura Segato, this hypothesis becomes complex when it proposes to stop thinking about the femicide as a crime in which hatred of the victim is predominant and, instead, the raises as a form of dialogue between members of a phratry . Without denying the misogyny present in the environment where these crimes take place, Segato go to the victim and the disposal of a process in which these killings are the requirements, the price-to belong to a sinister brotherhood. Execute a woman serves to seal a pact of silence, able to ensure loyalty to a brotherhood mafia inviolable. So Segato calls these murders "crimes corporation or "second state", defined by the group or corporation that manages network resources, rights and duties of a parallel state, firmly established in the region. That is, the mafia of the powers, such as drug cartels.

A reading wrong about preventing these crimes reflect on social issues where they are located, and machismo biased interpretations. When in Ciudad Juárez murders of women began to take notoriety, authorities were reporting that the victims were prostitutes or loose women, who lived a disorderly life, who drank and caused her dress. Apparently they thought the fact that there were "decent women" lowered the government's responsibility to investigate, solve and stop these crimes. The killings were increasing from year to year, with the indifference and incompetence of the judicial, police and policies. Only when the international scandal was unstoppable began to worry more for his reputation and that of Ciudad Juarez by women themselves and future victims.

long been known that in other states grows committing these heinous crimes and not learn from the case of Ciudad Juárez, the authorities show a stunning lack of interest. Scandal is now in the State of Mexico, where supposedly there are more women murdered in Ciudad Juárez. Rather than expressing concern for clarifying what this sinister butcher, local authorities consider the request to the Interior Ministry and the Inmujeres by 90 researchers and 43 NGOs from 18 states of the republic in place the "gender alert" in the Edomex has electoral purposes, and are reluctant to agree to investigate the facts. In addition, following the sexist bias, the prosecutor Alfredo Castillo has said the victims were killed because they "use drugs, alcohol or inhalants used," plus "working in bars alternating with customers."

Years ago I compared the way the British authorities handled the case of five murders in Ipswich (Proceso 1573 December 24, 2006). Five sex workers were found dead, probably at the hands of a serial murderer. The entire UK will be shocked, but what public interest was whether the police would be effective enough to find the murderer before he killed more women. No one said that "they asked for it" or moralized about the risks of sex work, on the contrary, some editorialists criticized the fact that they had talked about the death of "five prostitutes" rather "five women." And while the murderer is caught, the authorities asked the sex workers who do not ride at night and opened an unprecedented public policy: give the money and drugs they would get on the street, not to leave their homes. The murderer was arrested a week later. What a way to take responsibility for their citizens! Far

we are in Mexico and of civilized attitudes. But it is essential that the authorities, all, all parties in all states, to take seriously the frightening increase in the number of femicide. To more effectively prevent and prosecute these murders must be changed interpretive approach and accept preventive mechanisms as "gender alert." Instead of taking offense or suspect ulterior motives electoral Edomex authorities should not only take advantage of "gender alert", but publicly correct the interpretation that made her male judiciary.

The battle for the safety of everyone, not just for women, will be long and complex. But against this specific type of murder requires not only better police investigation, but also use the tools of preventive intervention that will result in the medium and long term. That is what the "gender alert." It takes real political will to solve the crimes and stop its recurrence. The arrogant and macho stubbornness-the-vote-yes definitely Peña Nieto government only complicates matters further. What is it that you fear?

* Published in the journal Process

How Many Panadol Kill You

The State and Violence

Teresa Incháustegui *

In memory of the bereaved family and Reyes Salazar and Roberto Layda solidarity, fighters copies in favor of justice back to what he says Roberto Zamarripa in the introduction of the book Confessions of a hitman Juan Carlos Reyna: war declared in 2007 by Calderon broke the rules of accommodation and cohabitation between drug trafficking and government, and quite disrupted by the democratization started in 1983 and the fragmentation of political power in Mexico that led to the alternation in 2000 - but up to now have spare the terms of coexistence between the crime and the institutions, which for decades set some narco governance (analyzed and characterized this regulation since 1998 by academics and experts from the likes of John Bailey and recognized by political and Miguel de la Madrid and Socrates Rizzo).

This open struggle between armed violence of the state and the armed violence of the cartels and criminal organizations is a tacit declaration that the rule of civilized and civilizing rights in Mexico has died out in favor of a state of terror that multiplies indiscriminate violence. Because what reigns in the territories under surveillance by state security forces (military and police) is the rise of lawlessness and crime. No justice law and the rule of law.

violence of the modern state is the rule of law, that violence is the only tolerable in a civilizing order. The monopoly of legitimate violence is the possibility of punishment to offenders through the justice system that weighs and judges its degree of culpability and sends the signal that no crime unpunished. The signal of a state that does not punish criminals and armed to pursue cross country is that it has renounced civility, rights, the rule of justice and has taken the same path that offenders. Taking the violence, which is the golden rule of criminals (the only currency accounts at the end of sorts) as a rule the state. By accessing this area, the State has already lost, it is the law of crime, the rule of violence, which has been imposed.

This is what happens in Ciudad Juárez, in the Valley of Juárez and other cities where it has deployed this strategy. That insecurity stems from both criminal organizations like the police and military personnel who act outside or above the law. And does not distinguish state action from that of criminals using the same method, the same weapons and sometimes even the same uniforms and emblems! Have been mimicked and confused, and so people fear them and rejects them both.

The rule of illegality has been imposed. Of little use if punitive manodurismo offenders are not apprehended or tried. And instead of the rule of justice what we have is the proliferation of criminal markets, widespread extortion of businesses and professionals, kidnapping, femicide, uprisings, disappearances, murders innocents in the crossfire, collective murders reek of social cleansing, violations of homes, summary trials, suppression activists and human rights advocates, orphans and families in war torn countless.

What are the courses of action in this scenario? In the context in which positions are located the officers, the possible courses pass through the escalation or continuation of violence and the derogation of the law. Legalizing this strategy is the objective of the initiatives made national security from the government. But as we have seen, any escalation of military forces or the state, is likely to be answered with criminal terrorism and unleash the abuses of the guardians of the law against human rights of the population at levels well as terror, converting the martyred and northern cities in hell. Without discounting the fact that an escalation of this type are deemed to threaten national security and decide to invade a neighboring country. Is that you looking for?

Contrary to what has been machado from formal and informal areas, giving a turn to this route is not surrender but to take another direction. In principle is essential to strengthen and refine the institutions of justice, rather than over-investing in security. In addition to deploying a strategy of active anti-crime intelligence, clean police organizations and create a career police labor rights and codes of conduct with clear rules so that the elements are not forced to work in the duplication of rules imposed by their superiors that often force them to play their role as guardians of order, breaking the law. Third, launch a broad social policy to eradicate the social fabric crime, reduce and eliminate social exclusion, strengthen citizen participation, overcome the culture of illegality and, above all, healing the soul of families attacked by this senseless war.

Maybe this is a long way, but what we want to get faster to the breakdown of the rule of law in Mexico or a civil war?

* Deputy for the PRD. Text published in El Universal