Rocha Moya calls for the eradication of violence against women in Sinaloa

Culiacán, Sinaloa.- When installing the Technical Institutional Coordination Table to Promote Access to Justice and Care for Women and Girls, Governor Rubén Rocha Moya called on all participants to get involved in this objective, and for his part, assured that his government will increasingly be responsible for promoting the eradication of violence against this sector and in the implementation of a real gender culture in favor of women. The state president installed this body in the presence of Dr. Fabiola Alanís Sámano, national commissioner for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women, his entire cabinet, civil society groups and the mayors and representatives of the five municipalities that since 2017 requested the Declaration of Gender Alert, which are Culiacán, Ahome, Mazatlan, Navolato and Guasave.In his message, the governor of Sinaloa, Rocha stressed that although there is a 41 percent reduction in intentional homicides against women since this Gender Alert was decreed, as well as in the category of femicides, with 6 against the 11 registered a year ago, they are not figures to declare themselves triumphalist, because with only one that is presented it is worrying because it threatens the lives of women.” We’re not going to be happy, we can’t take out the statistics and say we’re improving, yes that’s good, because it’s our obligation to improve, but we can’t say, you know what? now they are going less, because even if there is one we must be worried. So this is an issue of first importance, we have a lot of commitment to it,” he said. Read more: Help grandparents! After fire, El Buen Samaritano home in Culiacán still needs supportHere took advantage of the governor of the state to announce that the construction of the Justice Center for Women of Mazatlan has already been tendered, and soon another will be tendered in the city of Los Mochis, in addition to the fact that he promised to create temporary shelters for women that are necessary. In this same sense, he reported that he has already issued instructions to the Secretary of Public Security, Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo, to form a group of gender police, as first responders to the calls for help of domestic violence to the detriment of women. Governor Rocha informed National Commissioner Fabiola Alanís that one of his government’s first actions was to create the Women’s Secretariat, headed by Tere Guerra Ochoa, in response to a personal commitment to promote culture and gender parity in his administration.” I have a secretary of women, and I could tell my secretary, there represent me to women, but I want to be as much as possible together with her and not send her as a representative, that she is as secretary, because I am interested in being, that they see my face, the commitment that there is, because seriously mortifies me, we don’t want poses,” he said. The state president reiterated his gratitude to all the members of this Coordination Table to establish the commitment to prevent and eradicate violence against women. “My call is for all of us to get involved in this work,” he concluded. For her part, Fabiola Alanís congratulated Governor Rocha for having integrated a parity government between men and women, with an evident gender culture that in Sinaloa is here to stay, and stressed that the state president has proposed to Congress a woman to occupy one of the most important positions, speaking precisely of justice for women, as is the prosecutor Sara Bruna Quiñonez Estrada. Rocha Moya calls for the eradication of violence against women in Sinaloa | Photo: Courtesy The national commissioner thanked the willingness of all authorities and civil society groups to launch these Coordination Tables, because one of the great challenges is to advance in the eradication of violence against women and girls. She stressed that the figures indicate that ten women are murdered every day throughout Mexico, for the simple fact of being women, for reasons of gender, while the COVID pandemic that forced confinement in homes, generated an increase in cases of violence against girls and adolescents, where in 9 out of 10 cases, the aggressors are part of the close circle of the victims. Alanís Sámano considered that in order to reduce impunity for femicides, any violent death of a woman must begin to be investigated as femicide, on the contrary as is currently done, where first of all it is typified as intentional homicide and if there are gender aggravating factors, it is reclassified as femicide. In turn, Secretary Tere Guerra Ochoa released some figures in this regard, and in a coSince 2017, the year in which the five municipalities mentioned requested the Gender Alert Declaration, on the issue of murdered women, which includes femicides and intentional homicides, there is a reduction of 41 percent, since in 2017 there were 86 women murdered and in 2021 it closes with 50 cases. As for the comparison of the first quarter, considering the statistics of 2021 with an average of 17 in the first four months, in this period from January to April 2022 11 cases have been registered, of which 6 have been classified as femicides. On the other hand, complaints of domestic violence increased by 105 percent, since of 2,272 investigation folders registered in 2017, it closed last year with 4,656 cases. Read more: Rupture of a pipe caused the leakage of sewage in the center of Culiacán, Sinaloa “However, as we have said, on the issue of violence against women, we cannot lower our guard, we must never sing victory, violence is present, it is in the streets and we have to strengthen actions,” he said. Newspaper El Debate renews design in its five print editions

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