translated from Spanish: There is a State plan in the field of human rights, accused OSC on first 100 days of AMLO

Civil society organizations dedicated to human rights, women and environment made a count of lights and shadows for the first 100 days of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which met on Sunday, where it expressed concern about the lack of a plan clear for addressing these issues.
“Seems to be a Government that there is a State plan in the field of human rights.” That we not shocked because there it with (Henry) penalty, there it with the (Felipe) Calderon and not had it with (Vicente) Fox. “But frankly what shocked us is that decisions taken will be very similar to the old Governments and which have not resolved fundamental problems”, said Mario Patrón, director of the Centro ProDH.
Even so, he acknowledged that this Administration has much more trained partners on these issues and with margin of broader action than in past six, in addition to at least in intent has been available to not continue with impunity, to take action How to create a Commission to investigate the Ayotzinapa case or the recent public apology for the enforced disappearance of five young in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz.
Alejandra Padilla, Equis: justice for women, said as the lights of the new Government the search for gender parity in the Cabinet and the ratification of the International Convention that gives social rights to the domestic workers.
However, it was considered more serious shadows: the Elimination of the childcare program, which already caused some close, and the change raised in shelters for women and child victims of violence, which criticized that you just presented a “plan emerging”in just some points that are contradictory to speak of preventing aggression in the public space, when shelters are for domestic violence.
He added how concern for the rights of women, even if not what they seem, expanding the list of crimes involving pre-trial detention and the creation of the National Guard. First, because although the female prison population is only 5%, which is more has grown in recent years. Second, because the presence of soldiers in the streets to combat crime hosts has increased both the deaths of women in public spaces and the violations of their rights.
“The rate of murders of women increased from 1.9 per 100 thousand inhabitants in 2007 to 4.4 for each 100 thousand in 2016 (…)” And when they make arrests, the army and the Navy, there is one higher percentage of women that are made these without arrest warrants, and 41% of women who are detained by army and Navy reported sexual violence, as opposed to 5% of men” He explained.
Gustavo Alanís, of the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Cemda), criticized that disbursements 2019 budget the Secretariat with greater reduction of 32%, was that of environment and natural resources (Semarnat), while increasing you in more than 900% of energy (Sener) that it favors fossil fuel projects, such as a refinery at Dos Bocas, Tabasco.
He harshly questioned the veracity with which is driving the Government on various issues, and gave as an example when the organization chaired by put a complaint because the refinery project had no manifestation of environmental impact or change of land use, but Sener went to the media to say that yes I had them and in this land there was no forest or mangroves, which ended up being denied because the safety agency, energy and environment (ASEA) ordered reforest 80 hectares of mangrove and imposed a fine of 14 million weight s. activists discussed these issues at a forum organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, where he also discussed the disqualifications had Lopez Obrador against the Civil society organizations, which already ordered not give not a single weight of money public.
What were considered really worrisome, beyond criticism, is that you do not see them as social actors and raise a so-called direct interaction with society, as the consultations citizens, who leave much to be desired in terms of its organization, legality and real representativeness.
“What we see is that this Government has the prospect of that civil society are only intermediaries, that is, not that we are per are actors in a context of democracy, but that we are brokers of society, or, in our case, for example, of the victims.” So, if that is the role assigned to civil society, you are minimizing it, reducing, and above all, is leaving that building policy flows span the exercise of Government, political parties, or in the best of cases, social movements” , thought pattern.
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Original source in Spanish