2024-07-14 23:01:20
Mexico has made progress in implementing sentences of easy reading for citizens in conditions of vulnerability, childhoods y People with disabilitiesbut more training and resources are needed to expand this type of justice, judges and magistrates agreed… In addition to the fact that the judicial reform does not contemplate this type of action.
The sentences in easy-to-read format are complementary to explain the resolution of cases in understandable language, which, although it derives from international deals and the 2011 Human Rights reform is not mandatory for judges.
For example, last January the ruling for the amparo trial was published 1543/2023, because the forced motherhood of a teenager who was a victim of rape was intended.
The minor was a victim of her mother’s partner since she was 13 years old and became pregnant, so, after the criminal complaint, she chose a process of terminating a pregnancy.
However, a local judge Morelos She called the minor’s father, who had already signed the abortion consent, to express his wish to adopt the baby, to which he indicated that he would, until his daughter came of age and took charge. The judge also ordered the teenager to be summoned so that she could comment on this possibility..
In this regard, another federal judge, Martha Eugenia Magana, The court granted the teenager and her father protection from being called to trial, and also drafted an easy-to-read ruling to explain her case to the victim.
The supplementary document is one page long and was reviewed by the team of psychologists treating the victim.
“I learned that when you got pregnant they blamed you, but I want to tell you that nothing that happened is your fault. The decision you made not to be a mother It is a right that you and all women have, so no one should make you feel bad about it. Remember, you did nothing wrong and I decided that we should all respect your decision.”
The judge told her: “You are a girl and there are still many things you have to do like studying, playing, doing sports, making friends y friends, When you are older you will have the opportunity to work in the profession you like most, travel and you will be able to decide if you want to be a mother.”
The judge has made other similar sentences so that children who are victims of various crimes know the resolution of their cases.
“The simple reading format is not only there for a minor, but can be given to people who do not have knowledge in Right and that they don’t have to have them,” he said in an interview for the Federal Judiciary on resolutions in that type of format.
He added that “we still have a long way to go in that area, I know we are not specialists, but we are working on it, on my part, my team and many judges “I know we get excited because we can get right to the real complainant.”
With the easy-to-read format, amparo rulings of more than 100 pages and full of legal technicalities, are reduced to a single sheet; for example, a few months ago, magistrates of a federal court of Chihuahua They issued a resolution in infographic format, in which on a single page they explained to a teenager that through an injunction they had ordered that she not be dropped from a private secondary school.
This year, another Collegiate Court of Chihuahua issued a ruling in infographic format, addressed to a minor, in which it explains the resolution of her case, since her sister was her legal guardian, but she had been denied registration as a beneficiary of health services, so they explained to her that her sister had the right to register her as a beneficiary.
In this regard, the judge and director of the Federal Institute of Public Defense, Taissia Cruz, He pointed out that in order to expand the implementation of easy-to-read sentences, it is necessary to improve training and increase the budget in all areas of the Judiciary, which is not contemplated in the judicial reform that is intended to be approved so that judges are elected by popular vote and do not necessarily have judicial career.
For his part, Benjamin Rubio, magistrate and director of Judicial Management in the Judiciary, He acknowledged that the majority of judges are accustomed to voluminous sentences full of legal technicalities, which is why he pointed out that the Federal Judiciary and local must move towards the development of accessible sentences and incorporate technology, such as codes QR, audios and infographics to explain the resolutions.
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2024-07-14 23:01:20