Search for missing people in Mexico He has a woman’s face. Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters looking for their loved ones, of which at least 97 % suffer Violence And Effects for work that corresponds to the state, according to the message Amnesty International (AI) represented on Tuesday in the Mexican capital.
Report ‘Again disappeared: violence and consequences that are faced with seekers of women in Mexico“The scheme of aggression and damage that search engines disproportionately suffer from the fact that they are women, while the state ignores.
Director AI SpainIN Esteban BaltranHe told EFE about the importance of observing this phenomenon with a gender perspective in a country that accumulates more than 130,000 missing people, according to official figures, and where, according to estimates, 90 % of those who carry out search work are women.
“Amnesty documented that women are those who are looking for loved ones who do not have enough men (…) mainly,” Beltran recalled, and noted that for this the existence of more than 230 search groups that perform the work of the authorities and are encountered many times with them.
After a review of 661 seekers of women, Ay He found that 97 %faced violence and consequences in the search for missing persons, where threats (45 %), extortion (39 %), attacks (27 %), forced supplants (27 %), torture (10 %) and abduction (6 %) are allocated.
It was also found that 60 % of the search engines lived a deterioration in family relations, 70 % influenced Physical and mental healthand 60 %, loss of resources.
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Baltran emphasized that “women are faced with special problems in search of their loved ones”, such as uncertainty in work, since many were dismissed from their work for combining their time with search work.
In some cases, they must also take on the role of domestic supplies -in addition to the face with persons and search engines -when their families decay after the disappearance of one of its members.
“Women stay with children and must combine their work as a mother and a wife with a search engine that does not occur in the case of men,” said the director of AI.
Added to this, Baltran He added that “there is a very important component of the stigmatization and revision of women,” because the report shows that each of the two suffered from the authorities and even his own families and communities.
The “coherence” of the government
Thus, Baltran urged the Mexican state to admit that the disappearance is a “innate and Enkvist” problem, since it reflects the Epistle of the “female government” for the fact that he was the first head of Claudia Sheinbaum.
“I think this will correspond to this position that the government must maintain and condemn violence against women. In the case of search engines, it does not do this, ”he said.
Among his recommendations, AI calls on the Mexican government to recognize women -seeing women -defenders, which happens only in some cases.
“When these seekers are looking for women, they are fighting in search of their loved ones, they replace the state that should really explore what is happening, at least it protects the state that deserves as defenders of rights,” he said.
Finally, Baltran pointed out serious shortcomings in the defender protection mechanism in Mexico, since search engines are reported to those who “did not even work on the panic button,” which the authorities give them to notify the emergency.
IN Mexico, More than 130 thousand missing and not located, according to the latest update The national register of missing and not located (Rnpdno) This has been considered disappearance since the 1950s.
With information EFE
