The Gender-Based Political Violence against women is committed in any area, it is not exclusive to men. electoral processesand its combat requires a institutional effort together, pointed out advisors from the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM).
During the presentation of the results of the pilot program of first-party services psychological aid, guidance, advice, care y accompaniment legal protection of women in situations of gender-based political violence, the counselors reported that this phenomenon, unfortunately, is repeated more frequently.
“The Gender-Based Political Violence “It is the great pending issue of the electoral process and it will not be eradicated with decrees or good intentions, but with concrete actions even at the individual level, although it is the great common task of society,” said the presidential advisor, Patricia Avendaño.
Given this, the also president ofl Observatory of Women’s Political Participation in Mexico City He commented that “the desirable thing would be for this violence to not exist and for these types of mechanisms to not be necessary.
“From the scope of at least the electoral institutes, in this case that of the Mexico CityWhat would be up to us is to promote similar actions, because the worst thing that can happen to a person, a woman who is being violated, assaulted, attacked by exercise of her political rights, is to feel alone, to feel orphaned, to feel that no one listens to her, to not know what to do, to feel that she is attacked, that she is humiliated, that she demerit”, he pointed out.
The advisor Sonia Pérez pointed out that violence can occur in all spaces in which women participate, since it is not an exclusive problem of the candidates in the electoral processes.
“What it seems to me very valuable and a very good practice is that, once the programs, We can make a cut and analyze the results,” he stated.
The counselor Erika Estrada He stated that it is also pending to eradicate these attacks in political parties, as it is a space where they unfortunately have a powerful niche.
He explained that from the Complaints Commission the IECM has worked to address this problem with a group of lawyers specialized in the matter, a psychologist and a citizen security specialist to be able to provide first-hand attention to the victims.
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2024-10-02 18:00:30