translated from Spanish: Michoacan Congress to amended laws to eradicate violence against women

home Michoacán Michoacan Congress to amended laws to eradicate violence against women

Morelia, Michoacán.- The State Congress has reported a contribution to gender equality and the fight against gender-based violence of all kinds against women, so in recent days they approved various amendments to the Law for a Free Life of Violence, as well as to the Law on Administrative Responsibilities and the State Electoral Code.
In this regard, it reiterated its commitment and willingness to always support women, and with reforms local legislators enshrine local laws on gender parity, as well as initiatives, positions and exhortations that seek at all costs to completely erase the gap in inequality between men and women and gender-based violence.
Members of the Michoacan Congress have already passed several reforms to the Law for a Free Life of Violence, as well as to the Administrative Responsibilities Act and the Electoral Code, all of the State of Michoacán.
This is in order to eradicate political violence against women and have full respect for the exercise of their political rights.
With this that approved the plenary of the State Congress in past days, the gender perspective is incorporated, as well as the principles of equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, the principle of non-discrimination, political violence against women on the basis of gender, the establishment of gender parity, making possible the advancement of women through the elimination of gender-based violence that continues to prevail today.

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