Ensure that laws to protect women working with serious flaws – XEU

Xalapa, Veracruz ver.- is a state with a legal framework advanced in protecting women, has eight laws, three protocols, one agreement and one circular punish violence and protect the human rights of women, however none of this is true 100%, and most have serious flaws that generate more violence against women, agreed feminist point.

   Although being one of the pioneers states in enacting the Law on Access to Women to a Life Free of Violence, seven years after its entry into force, missing key mechanisms as a state database, a center of justice for women, a shelter for battered women, regional diagnoses of violence, actions under the law.

   Of laws passed by the Local Congress, as the Victims Law for the State Law to Prevent, Punish the crimes of trafficking, Act on Equality between Women and Men Act to prevent and eliminate discrimination, all they lacking regulation, therefore they are ineffective.

    Access Act should be reviewed Aracely Saavedra González, a member of Equifonía AC, the organization signing the application for warning of gender violence, he found that the access law is a step forward for the company, but needs to be revised.

 “We know how to apply in particular, especially in the types and forms of violence case,” he said.

 He warned that enough to put into operation the law was never approved budget, which makes it a priority to doubt justice to women victims of crime.

 As an example, it spends less than 1% of the budget for gender actions, and budget IVM has decreased year after year.

 The activist said it is important a revision to the law and the adjustments that were made to civil and penal code.

 “A review to advance the recognition of the rights of women, as we can reformulate to combat impunity, and that crimes do not continue to be committed,” he said.

 Bank without complete data

   The database of gender violence provided the Law, if it exists, but most do not nurture dependency, despite calls from Veracruz Institute of Women own (IVM).

   Agencies such as the Attorney General, or the Public Security Secretariat itself, does not provide information.

   “There are a number of violent incidents against women who remain unregistered, but there is not complete, because the agency does not report cases,” he said.

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