They recommend that the profiles within Semujeres be adequate to avoid disarticulation.
Activists belonging to the Front for Women’s Rights in Yucatan submitted a request to the state government to hold a face-to-face meeting with Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena, seeking to discuss issues regarding women’s human rights in the state.
The activists propose better links within the Secretariat for Women (Semujeres) and that the issue of women’s rights includes efforts from other agencies.
The meeting seeks to establish a dialogue regarding the internal structure of the Secretariat for Women, with emphasis on the positions that are being offered in the sub-secretariats and in the teams that make it up to avoid internal disarticulation.
“We perceive that there is no integration within those who make up Semujeres,” explained Nancy Walker, a member of the Front for Women’s Rights in Yucatan.
The activists recognized that many of the positions in these secretariats are occupied through power quotas. However, the problem is that those who hold these positions are not trained.
The Front also highlighted that there is no clear program on certain courses of action of the Secretariat for Women, such as the Committee for the State Care System.
“Not only do they reschedule it, but when they have meetings there is no clarity. There is no clear plan of what is going to be done, nor how the programs or actions that are planned are going to be evaluated.”
Another of the important points in the topics to be discussed in the meeting with the government will be to make visible the current situation of the Committee that followed up on the Gender Violence Alert.
The topic of prevention and attention to the women in the interior of the state is urgent because Yucatan is among the states with the highest level of domestic violence and sexual abuse towards children and adolescents, the activists said.
In addition, they stressed that the role of mayors in the implementation of policies for the protection and promotion of women’s rights is crucial, with the participation of women’s institutes in the municipalities.
“By law, mayors must now provide a budget to address these cases of violence; they have not been called upon to demand them to the extent of the demands and needs that exist. It is not the assistance programs that will address the needs of women.”
They urged to improve the protocols for attention to victims of violence since the disconnection between institutions has caused neglect in mechanisms such as the Gender Violence Alert.
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