translated from Spanish: UMSNH to conduct Second Gender Inclusion and Equity Day

Morelia, Michoacán.- The Michoacana University will hold, next Wednesday, March 11, the Second Day of Inclusion and Gender Equity entitled “Scopes, limits and proposals on the Protocol for the Prevention, Action and Eradication of Gender Violence at the UMSNH”;  this event is part of the institutional policy that is driving the Maximum House of Studies of our state since the beginning of the current administration.
According to a press release, this Second Day proposes to take stock of the protocol in force at the Michoacana University to address the issue of gender-based violence.  It is a review exercise in which it is essential to listen to and bear in mind, mainly, the opinions and proposals that members of the university community wish to express and/or present.  For this reason, participation has been called through proposals that can be made in the presentation mode or by format (for this purpose you can see the call available in: www.umich.mx).
During the Second Day a master presentation will be presented that will address the importance of protocols on gender-based violence in higher education institutions, a panel of discussion will also be held in which researchers, experts in the design and / or implementation of these protocols, the Autonomous Universities of Sinaloa and Queretaro, the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of the West and the Michoacana University of San Nicolás something, they will share their experience on this, with which the UMSNH will enrich its own vision on the subject.  As a final part of this Day, the presentations that have been received on the different aspects of the Protocol in force in our House of Studies will be presented at working tables.
The institutional policy on inclusion and gender equity of this administration has focused both on timely attention in cases of reporting and on the continuous work of raising awareness and training of the community at different educational levels, through the various activities that are carried out in each university unit by the institutional links in the field.
In addition to this event, the Michoacana University has joined the planned unemployment of activities for the next 9 March, a day in which university women who so consider may be absent from their work during that day as part of the commitment and congruence with which this administration has been conducting itself on the subject.

Original source in Spanish