Women activists in Ecatepec, State of Mexico, took over the local offices of the Commission on Human Rights, replicating the taking of CNDH offices in the Historic Center of Mexico City.
About 20 women and 6 children arrived at 2pm to start taking, Erika “Kika” Flores, who leads the shot, explained in interview.
She is director of Fundación Iris, a shelter for children victims of sexual violence. He reports that instead of receiving government support, the DIF has tried to remove it and has received intimidating visits from the authorities.
Protesters are calling for resignations from Grisel Barrientos, director of the Municipal Women’s Institute, and Sandra Pacheco of the Women’s Justice Center, and say they are not leaving.
“We’re going to take advantage, if you don’t want my house to function as a shelter, because these offices we use as a shelter, for victims of child sexual violence,” Flores said.
He criticized Mexico as the first place in sexual abuse against children, and there are 10 child disappearances daily, but no one does anything or there are public policies, because they are the most defenceless victims, so they will keep taking it as long as there are no commitments to address this problem, he said.
Also protests in Michoacán, Veracruz and Aguascalientes
Feminist collectives and relatives of victims symbolically closed the headquarters of the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) in Michoacán, Veracruz and Aguascalientes, in solidarity with the demonstrators who keep their offices in Mexico City taken over.
This Thursday, a group of feminists symbolically closed access to the CNDH headquarters in Morelia, Michoacán, with tape reading “Forbidden passage”, and wrote on a wall “Nilda President”.
According to the Changoonga medium, the young women placed on the walls a poster of Francisco I. Madero intervened, as did one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as they did with paintings on the take-off of the Commission’s offices in Mexico City.
With Madero Posters and AMLO Feminists «Cancelan» CNDH In MoreliaMore Info: https://bit.ly/32hYAIo
Posted by Changoonga.com on Thursday, September 10, 2020
In Aguascalientes, feminist collectives placed a ‘Closed’ sign at the entrance to the CNDH offices and placed missing persons search posters on the fences of the building.
The Aguascalientes Observatory of Social and Gender Violence supported the taking of facilities in Mexico City and demanded guarantees of non-repression from the authorities in the face of protest.
#NiUnaMenosMexico #NiUnaMenos
We remain in the CNDH headquarters Aguascalientes in solidarity with the colleagues of the CDMX. pic.twitter.com/LfK5HKK6Pz
— OVSG AGS (@FeministAgs) September 8, 2020
The collective Bruges of the Sea also reported the symbolic taking of the Commission’s facilities in Veracruz.
The headquarters in Veracruz of the National Commission on Human Rights taken by feminists in support of the squatter Casa Refugio #NiUnaMenos ♀ pic.twitter.com/DfgfjnN8qh
— The Witches of the Sea (@brujasdelmar) September 11, 2020
Rosario Piedra appears
The president of the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), Rosario Piedra Ibarra, appeared thursday in the Senate of the Republic on her management at the head of the body, amid a takeover by relatives of victims of femicide and other violence that are already 6 days old.
There he assured that the food found inside and that the activists exhibited last Saturday was a lot because the purchase had just been made for the whole month, with which between 30 and 50 meals a day would be prepared for workers and some people who came to do the paperwork.
He said that between July and 1 September only 50 thousand pesos were spent on fruits, vegetables, chicken meat, beef and pork, fish (tilapia), oil, pastas, beans, coffee, water, cans of chillies and chongos zamoranos, jellies, “no gourmet or onerous products”. And between November 2019 and last March, when service was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the expenditure had been 150 thousand 952 pesos, i.e. an average of approximately 30 thousand per month.
“The menu was like any middle-class home, pasta soup, rice, beans and stew, fresh water, no gourmet food. And what was exhibited as ‘steaks’ and ‘fine cuts’ were but steaks of beef and pork and chambarete. What the president eats is exactly the same as the cleaning and surveillance staff,” Piedra Ibarra said.
In previous days she had already said that the meats found were chambarete, but Yesenia Zamudio, mother of a victim of feminiI believe and that she heads the Front Ni Una Menos, said that it was not true and that she knew very well of cuts of meat because she worked in restaurants.
The CNDH holder also noted that savings have been made during its management, such as a cut of more than 300 thousand pesos, which means 20.8%, in Chapter 1000 of “Personal Services”; 320 million in major medical expense insurance and individualized separation funds; and that his salary is 53 thousand 440 fortnightly pesos (106 thousand 880 per month), which is almost half of what his predecessor earned and less than the president of the country earns, as the law marks.
He also listed before the Senate Human Rights Commission actions that have been taken in line with protesters’ demands: a missed federal government for the campaign against pandemic violence “Counts to 10”; the reception this year of 56 complaints of gender-based violence and the issuance of two recommendations to the governors of Tabasco and Quintana Roo, another 43 recommendations for various human rights violations; and various urges authorities at all three levels of government to recognize violence against women as a serious problem.
With Changoonga information.
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