Governments reluctant to issue gender alerts: expert

by times news cr

2024-08-07 01:02:42

Since 2021, state and municipal governments across the country have avoided issuing Gender Violence Alerts against Womendespite the fact that since that year and until June 30, 2,175 femicides were recorded.

According to the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women (I tried), from 2015 to date, 25 gender violence alerts have been issued in 22 entities, of which three have double alerts.

There’s also 377 municipal alerts And in seven of these municipalities there is a double alert; the last one was declared in Sonora, in August 2021.

In this regard, Alejandra López, director of Gender and Government Consultants She considered it noteworthy that, despite the figures on violence against women in the country, no new emergency orders have been issued.

“There is a strong political part to issuing an alert, because it is recognizing that governments are doing their job poorly,” he said in an interview with 24 HOURS.

Officially, the gender violence alert against women (AVGM) “is a mechanism for the protection of women’s human rights that is unique in the world, established in the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence”.

HOW THEY PROTECT THEM

It consists of a set of emergency government actions to confront and eradicate the feminicidal violence and/or the existence of a comparative grievance that prevents the full exercise of women’s human rights in a given territory.

However, the specialist pointed out that this mechanism has been ineffective, because there is no protocol that be followed to the letter.

“In reality, these mechanisms with a gender perspective for prevention do not exist, they do not have mechanisms to prevent the consumption of feminicides and that there are no more cases,” he said.

According to SHelp Yadira Blanco Morfinin charge of the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women, these alerts have allowed the issuance of 587 measures to combat femicide violence.

Of these, 569 are valid, of which 110 are updated, 13 are new and 459 are not updated, said the head of Conavim in the framework of the Permanent Seminar “Prevention, attention and eradication of gender violence” that took place on January 30.

Six bodies were found; two were women

Violence against women continues in Tijuana, Baja California, In four different incidents, authorities located six bodies, two of which were women.

In response to violence against them, a gender alert was issued for the state in June 2021 as a protection mechanism; during the first half of this year, 1,000 cases of violence were reported 2,671 emergency calls involving a violent incident against a female person.

Regarding the homicides that occurred in Tijuana, Authorities reported that four of the six bodies were dismembered and in plastic bags.

They said the first case occurred around 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, when the remains were discovered in the El Soler neighborhood.

They found six legs, six arms and three torsos in the trunk of a truck, as well as a cardboard with a message alluding to the struggle over drug sales in that city.

At 8:30 p.m., the execution of a young man was reported in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood; at 9:00 p.m., a man was killed with a stone in Jardines de la Mesa and, finally, another body was found on Universo Street. / 24 Horas

2024-08-07 01:02:42

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