New measures against violence
The current head of Government, Clara Brugada, announced 15 new measures to reinforce the Alert for Violence against Women in Mexico City.
Saying ‘not one less’ is an obligation of the State; affirming ‘alive, free and without fear’ is the mandate that guides our public policies and our daily commitment.
Clara Brugada, head of CDMX Government
“The second floor of the transformation precisely means this, deepening the fight against violence against women, closing the spaces of impunity and guaranteeing that equality and justice reach every corner of our city,” she said in the presentation held in the Old City Hall Palace on August 25.
The new measures presented are:
1. Create mixed courts specialized in gender violence
2. Strengthen hotel regulation to prevent gender crimes
3. Issue the investigation protocol for gender crime in CDMX
4. Strengthen forensic capabilities for the genetic identification of sexual offenders and feminicide
5. Care of children and adolescents orphaned by feminicide
6. Strengthen the inter-institutional mechanism of protection measures for victims of gender violence
7. Strengthen re-education interventions for first-time offenders due to gender violence
8. Implement a policy of zero tolerance for sexual violence committed by police officers
9. Creation of the women’s ombudsman
10. Create the clinic for Mental Health Care of Women Victims of Violence
11. Generate information campaigns on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
12. Promote the specialized search for women and girls in Mexico City
13. Deployment of specialized gender police
14. Comprehensive strategy for the investigation of the crime of rape
15. Comprehensive strategy to address family violence
However, the new measures announced by Brugada were not worked on with the organizations that are part of the Interinstitutional and Multidisciplinary Group formed by the capital’s Government to follow up on the alert itself.
Maissa Hubert, deputy director of Equis Justicia para las Mujeres, comments that civil society organizations have requested meetings on several occasions with the Women’s Secretariat and the head of Government, but so far they have not received a positive response.
“We find it problematic that this space that had been created through co-construction with the Government of Mexico City, the mayors, civil society organizations, the academy, which was also a very important space for accountability, is lost,” he tells Political Expansion.
Hubert highlights among the measures launched as part of the alert during the six years since its launch, actions such as the creation of the LUNAS (Territorial Units for Care and Prevention of Gender Violence) to provide legal and psychological support and advice to women in situations of violence.
Also the application of risk assessment screenings to understand what level of risk of feminicide a woman victim of violence is at and provide differentiated follow-up; the installation of gender units within the Ministry of Public Security; the creation of the SOS Mujeres *765 line for specialized care; the presence of Women’s Lawyers who offer help in cases of gender violence in 21 Public Ministries by the Women’s Secretariat.
