translated from Spanish: Alert’s gender, with pending implementation in Jalisco

because of the grave situation of violence femicide in Jalisco, the past 20 November the Ministry of the Interior issued alert violence of gender against women (AVGM) in the State, but It has postponed its effective implementation, by the change of Government.
Notification about the alert came to the current Government of Jalisco on Nov. 30, part of the National Commission of assistance to victims (Conavim); However, since December 6 will be change in State administration, the authorities have not determined the actions that will be undertaken to address the issue.
Asked about actions with the Decree, the Jalisco Institute of women told political Animal than with the change of administration, the holder of Erika Loyo Beristain, is not giving interviews, since this will be his last day at the head of the institution Wednesday, December 5.
New measures to address gender-based violence, according to the Institute, shall be determined by the new administration, which still has not taken note of the Decree.
From February 2016, in Jalisco a warning state is active for violence against women, the mechanism with which the State Government undertook to implement strategies of prevention, protection, security, and justice in cases of aggression by gender-based.
The Governor Aristóteles Sandoval reported that 15 urgent preventive and judicial actions would be implemented to eradicate violence against women in Jalisco, and announced that the State would target 25 million pesos so that they will be held.
However, with the prevalence of cases of gender violence in the State, in November 2016 social organizations petitioned against the National Commission to prevent and eradicate violence against women (Conavim) to issue an alert, this time from the federal Government, to address the issue.
They accuse the State machinery failures when they requested the activation of the AVGM in Jalisco by the federal Government, social organizations noted that there was a breach of the measures established through the mechanism of State, announced by the Governor himself.
According to the report of the working group formed to address the request for warning of violence gender against women in Jalisco – composed of specialists-the lack of a real evaluation that would know the degree of progress was recorded in the compliance by the authorities involved as well as the lack of coordination between the municipalities with regard to the actions that corresponded them to carry out.
Organizations claimed that Jalisco femicides committed while they are investigated as such, as they are investigated as homicides fraudulent or culpable, “invisibilizando the situation in the State”.
Also complained that State “impunity is that prevails and aggravates violence femicide”, and that there are no protocols of action to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women, or to properly apply the Alba Protocol tool search of missing women.
Other detected points were that the Government of Jalisco failed to comply with the delivery of a
information system in cases of violence against women, which would have allowed know and monitor the phenomenon in the entity and adapt public policy for your attention.
The State Government also failed to strengthen the resources of the Jalisco Institute of forensic science, with the delivery of a critical path for the relief of the backlog in the delivery of expert reports related to violence against women.
Given these shortcomings and failures, was requested a second genus alert by organizations such as Catholic by pro-choice, justice, human rights and gender AC, and the national citizen Observatory of feminicide, among others.
They noted the severity of the violence against women, particularly in the municipalities of El Salto, Guadalajara, Lagos de Moreno, Mezquitic, Puerto Vallarta, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Tlaquepaque, Tonala, Zapopan and Zapotlán el Grande.
Between January 2016 and October 2018, Jalisco were committed 97 femicides, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the national system of public security (SESNSP).
6 thousand registered in the same period of time, 234 cases of sexual warning, harassment 768, 298 harassment and thousand 685 violations.
Second warning by gender-based violence, why?
The Ministry of the Interior reported that the assessment of the working group that evaluated the actions undertaken by the Government of Jalisco realize unfulfilled or partially fulfilled actions to protect the rights of women, so it issued the alert of federal gender.
This alert will search the State strengthen the Jalisco Institute of forensic sciences, the issuance and tracking of orders of protection for women, and ensure access to legal interruption of pregnancy women who have been victims of rape.
Also the State Bank in cases of violence against women must be supplied to you is available to the public and allows to observe the phenomenon in the entity, provide skills to the General Directorate of analysis and context of the prosecution of the State for investigate cases of femicide, and create a specialized area to meet violent deaths of women with a gender perspective.
You must also strengthen the operation of the Protocol Alba, to expedite the search for missing girls and women.
The AVGM issued by the Ministry of the Interior Decree establishes that, within a period of six months, the new Government of Jalisco shall inform the national system of care, prevention, punishment and eradication of violence against women advances achieved.
Currently, in addition to Jalisco 14 States of the country have an AVGM: Colima, Chiapas, State of Mexico, Morelos, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Quintana Roo, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Oaxaca and Veracruz, single entity with two active alerts.

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