Tortured women

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It is not possible to support that they are isolated cases and that the responsible are rotten things

Tortured women

By: Carlos Damian                                             June 30, 2016

To the critiques because of the situation that is do you live in the country "only answers without qualifications"

México. -   It is not observed in the Mexican government real political will of investigating, prosecuting and punishing the violation and other serious acts of sexual violence used as form of torture against the women that they are stopped by police and integrating agents of the armed forces, asserted Erika Guevara - Rosas, directress for the Americas International Amnesty (AI). In the presentation of the report "to Survive to the death. Women torture by policemen and armed forces in Mexico", warned that the lack of action governmental to investigate these serious violations to the human rights only encourages the impunity. "The Mexican authorities seem decided to maintain hidden this matter", said. Furthermore it indicated that this report not only confirms that the torture is a practice generalized in the country, as have expressed it various international human rights organizations, but also reveals "atrocities" and " sexual violence" committed against the arrested women, "that result unimaginable in a democracy". In the presented report yesterday (06/28/16) by AI, result from eight months from investigation, realizes of the cases of 10 women imprisoned in penal federal, and the form in which occurred their detentions and examinations accomplished by the agents of the police bodies, included the elements of the Army and the Navy. Conclude that the sexual violence is the favorite method by policemen and soldiers in the women arrest. Of 100 investigated cases, more than 50 percent of the victims asserted have been violated. The directress of AI, questioned the "very few tolerance" that it has shown the Mexican government before the constructive critiques in this matter, since it has answered with disqualifications and a  total denial of the situation that lives the country to the one which identified as one of the worse human rights crisis in the hemisphere. "It is not possible to support that it is considered isolated cases and that the elements (police and soldiers) that appeal to the torture are only some rotten apples, when these woman testimonies says us that it is considered a generalized practice", asserted Guevara - Rosas. Also it indicated that from on Monday past was made of the delivery of the report to various dependencies and federal government officials. However, it criticized that for years the official speech will be the same, of a declaratory commitment by approaching the topic, but that is not translated in the facts. As far as she is concerned, Madeleine Penman, coordinator of the report explained their contained and was referred to the “alarming impunity" to investigate and sanction these facts, where exists a "concealment" in all the levels.  Said also that there are governmental reports that realize of a "huge expense" of thousands training of police and soldier elements in the topic of human rights watching, but that seems have not change some in their behavior. Also it was referred to the Commission of the Human Laws (CNDH, for their initials in Spanish), instance that has a "huge presupposed" - more of billions of dollars for 2016 -, but whose paper is questioned by their efficiency.  Regretted that the CNDH may have received more than 7 thousand torture accusations and bad other dealings between 2010 and 2015, and in that same lapse only issued 62 recommendations by this item. Furthermore, it does not tend to deliver to the victims a copy of their process neither to advise them on the result of the investigations made by the mentioned organization.    The number from disappeared in Mexico does not has certain data Far from to reach and to guarantee the rights of the women, Mexico is going in absurdity of the international mandates and the situation for that sector of the population is increasingly complex. The Mexican State has not attended neither complied with the recommendations of the Convention on the Elimination of all form of Discrimination against the Woman (Cedaw), of the Organization of the United Nations, affirmed Gloria Ramirez, coordinator of the Cathedra Unesco of Human Laws Watching, of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM, for their initials in Spanish). In spite that that international instance has recommended country to homologate the access of the women to the sure abortion, that are guaranteed strategies to prevent and sanction the homicides against women (femininity), and to present certain figures on the quantity from disappeared women, it has not been fulfilled, and even goes in absurdity. During the Elaboration of the report forum Cedaw 2016, in the context of the presentation of the ninth newspaper report of Mexico before said Committee that was accomplished yesterday Tuesday (06/28/16), in the Political and Social Sciences Faculty of the UNAM, Ramirez detailed some of the omissions with the recommendations of that instance of the UN.  In the case of the sure abortion, recalled, only is guaranteed in the Mexico City, since in other entities not only is not recognized that right, but they have been modified the local legislations to penalize that practice and to incarcerate to women that they may have accomplished it. Indicated that on homicides against women in 2010, when the Mexican State delivered their reports 7 and 8 before the Cedaw, the case most emblematic was that Juarez City, Chihuahua, but six years after this type of crimes are presented countrywide. Ramirez recalled that during the appearing of Mexican officials before the experts of the Cedaw, when these ask on what has been made to avoid the violence against the women, they have been limited to speak of the courses and of the measures legalist. "The experts them say that is very well, but that what is relevant would be that informed how many aggressors have arrested". With respect to topic of the disappeared women, indicated that there is no certain data, since even there are two official records with different figures. United to this, only they give numbers and is not informed the condition of the cases, what is means, if already they were located or in their case if they were murdered.  Chihuahua: homicides against women In Chihuahua, yesterday three women were murdered in two different acts. One of the victims was found strips and burning it within a housing Juarez City, while in the Ascension municipality, to 200 kilometers from there, was found to two persons of the feminine sex died within fourth of hotel. With these crimes added 11 of the women to who has been given violent death in so only this month in the entity. The district attorney's office of the Chihuahua State (FGECh) made known yesterday by the tomorrow an agent of the Public Ministry and elements of the district attorney's office Specialized in Attending the Violence against the Women by Gender Reasons took knowledge  in Juarez City,  "of the body of a woman without life  that was presenting advanced decomposition and signs state of the fact that it was sprayed with gasoline to apprehend to them fire, within a house of the colony Melchor Ocampo". At the same time the firemen body referred that the corpse to the moment has not been identified -, "was presenting certain degree of carbonization, apparently because was burnt intentionally". While, in the center of the Ascension municipal  head-board was found without life, in a hotel room La Pasadita, to the women identified as Crystal Soriano, of 23, and Cecilia Colorado of 35 years old. Both were originating in Juarez, and they were uncovered you strip, they were beat and with multiple injuries provoked by weapons kind knife.   (La Jornada, política, p. 10, Junio 29, 2016).