shelters for women victims of extreme violence, both the Government and civil society organizations, will continue to receive resources, but the Government examines if the Ministry of the Interior will be who is responsible for their operation, said Jesús Ramírez, spokesman for the Presidency.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in the morning that the way is being analyzed to support women. “All of this you are defining so it knows where to go, what to do, as all programs”.
-Then, the refuge of women affected, mistreated. How are going to support?, questioned you in Conference.
“Governorate, in a direct way, for that is the Government, is that it was creating a Government alternative, parallel, and dependencies are not occupied,” said the President.
Ramirez said that it is considering, even Government absorbing to shelters in the organizations of the civil society, “but it is not a fact, only is one of the possibilities”.
Read: The Government fixes and opens again the call for women’s shelters receive subsidy also questioned you if the economic support would continue delivering to shelters.
“Yes there will be resources, not going to miss,” he said.
“The federal Government is going to continue, not only to support programmes through the Ministry of the Interior, but increasingly are going to have more resources. There are now more resources for the benefit of women in Mexico, I can prove that. On Monday I will give to know that”, said.
Then said, what is changing “so there is simulation, so that there is no corruption, so there is no intermediation”, are the procedures, rather than give an organization resources to those who need it, delivered in a way direct beneficiaries.
He reiterated that some organizations have requested a hearing to ask serving Yes, yes they had support purposes people; “but in general many abuses were committed and it was quite the money earmarked for that purpose.”
In accordance with the programme of action specific prevention and care of family violence and gender 2013-2018, shelters for women victims of extreme violence are operated “mainly by organizations of civil society working non-of” I profit supported by financing Government and social development of their activities, as well as some public institutions at State, municipal and local level in the States”.
It’s 60 locations in 25 States across the country. A diagnosis of the Inmujeres based on a census of the 2015 reports that 90% of the shelters works funded by the Government.
On February 22, the Health Ministry confirmed that shelters for women victims of extreme violence will not receive subsidies from the federal Government, to analyze what is the best way to use the money to meet this need.
However, a day later, the night of Saturday 23 February the Ministry of health returned to climb the same call on its website, without giving further explanation and without extending the deadline for the delivery of projects, which is maintained for the 6 March 2019, until at 18:00.
“Lee: Decision to analyze shelters subsidy does not comply with the obligation of the State to protect women: NGO”Give props directly demonstrates ignorance”for the national network of shelters, the thought of delivering resources to the women in a direct way,” shows not only a lack of the necessary processes of support requiring women victims of violence, but it also reflects a flat welfare concept to a complicated problem that cannot, under any aspect, rectified with help economic direct since not only not restores rights, or saves lives, but destroys all human rights policy and substantive equality, which has been built from the civil society with much effort”.
Lee: Federal Government left without public funds to shelters for women victims of violence according to the network, found in all institutions of the country where there are shelters of the organizations of civil society, women victims of the violence in general do not denounce and not often visited by helping government institutions.
Among some of the reasons, designates, by the lack of credibility in the institutions where they revictimiza them and it does not affect their conditions so that they can overcome them.
The presence of the shelters and specialized professional comprehensive care offered in them, overcome some of the barriers that exist for women to receive help, because they act immediately, ensures the network in a statement.
We speak to the statements made yesterday by the spokesman of the Presidency, Jesús Ramírez who said that resources will be delivered to women victims of violence directly and not to the organizations. https://t.co/ODCvOCASVf pic.twitter.com/6knZpHSLbr – Nal network of shelters (@RNRoficial) March 1, 2019 thanks for reading! Help us to continue with our work. How? You can now subscribe to political Animal on Facebook. With your monthly donation, you will receive special content. Find out how to subscribe here. Check our list of frequently asked questions here.
