He Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Ked) belonging United Nations He expressed his concern about the “ubiquitous” Violence against women and girls V Mexicoand recommended the state “effective and stable” investments in Gender equalityas well as official recognition Missingwhich are mainly women.
Disseminating the results of the last assessment in the Mexican state, Ked He celebrated legislative advances related to gender violence, but said that he was still “concerned about his ubiquitous in the state.”
The Committee emphasized his concern for “increasing gender violence against women and girls committed by state and non -state entities, including criminal organizations, such as disappearance, torture, sexual violence and feminicide, often with firearms.”
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He also emphasized that this violence is “aggravated by ineffective and insufficient reactions, even in the control of weapons and Security policyand data collection. “
In this sense, he indicated that the concentration of attention only on criminal law for solving gender violence is limited, because, among others, “various definitions of feminicides” distort statistics.
Therefore, he recommended to guarantee “a thorough collection of data on all forms of gender violence against women committed by state and non -state entities, including human rights activists, women from among the indigenous peoples, Afromexican LGBTI And women with disabilities. “
He Ked He also expressed concern about the “budgetary reduction of services for the main protection”, including shelters and justice centers, which remain mainly inaccessible to women with disabilities and women in remote areas.
Although he celebrated the arrival of the first president in the country, Claudia ShainbaumAnd creation Women’s secretariat (Midfield) The committee expressed concern about the lack of independence and possible abbreviations, so it urged to guarantee “effective and stable human, technical and financial resources.”
Urgently recognize “search engines”
On the other hand, Sedou said that “he was especially concerned about the situation of“ search engines ”, observing that most of those who are looking for missing people are women”, and that violence and discrimination that they face are gender persecution, which enhances the patriarchal structures. ”
“The Alarm Committee that the work of“ search engines ”is often not recognized as the protection of human rights, creating barriers to protection mechanisms, despite the true and initiatives of truth.
Thus, CEDAW recommended Mexican state Formally recognize “search engines” as a special category of human rights defenders, establishing minimal standards throughout the country to determine them and protection measures.
With information EFE
