Social organizations, unions and groups of working women in the judicial field held feminist assemblies this Wednesday afternoon in the main judicial districts of all the provinces demanding an “egalitarian and fair” Supreme Court, for the democracy of the judicial system, and in support for Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner”.
under the motto “For Her, for You, for Us, for All” and with the label #28S, the call had its epicenter in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in Plaza Lavalle in front of the Palace of Justicewhere thousands of protesters began to gather at 5 p.m.
In the first row in front of the stage were the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Nation, Elizabeth Gomez-Alcorta; the deputies for the Front of All (FdT) Victoria Donda and María Rosa Martinez; the Minister of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires, Estela Diaz; the general secretary of the Federation of Unions of Judicial Workers of the Argentine Republic, Vanesa Siley and the director of Equity Policies, Labor Training and Care of the Ministry of the Province of Buenos Aires, Claudia Lázzaro.
During the development of the assembly, which lasted for two hours, different referents of the political, social and union organizations took the floor.
“The greatest arch of unity in Argentina is once again made by women and diversities who today come together throughout the country to ask for a feminist judicial reform to be heard,” they said at the opening of the assembly.
Also, it was highlighted the “massive call” that was reflected in a day of feminist assemblies in a way simultaneously in provinces such as Entre Ríos, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Mendoza, Chaco, Misiones and in localities of the province of Buenos Aires.
One of the axes of the call for the meeting was to express support for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after the attempted assassination suffered on September 1 in front of her home in Recoleta, to which one of the organizers made reference from the stage: “If they persecute Cristina, they also persecute us, because they come for our rights, all those rights that we won in those 12 years.”
In this sense, Estela Diaz He assured, in statements to Télam, that there is an “institutional fragility”, describing what he considered “a spiral of violence such as the assassination of the vice president, with a judicial party that together with the media are playing political persecution, there is a weakening of democracy and that is the deepest demand of this hour”.
Regarding the massive call, the Buenos Aires minister expressed that “a path of organized public dialogue is inaugurated that will continue to grow” in the face of an “enormous debt in the Judiciary.”
“We need parity, but we also need the gender perspective when justice is dispensed. There is a revictimization of those who suffer violence, that requires a profound transformation and democratization at all levels of the Judiciary,” he argued.
The Buenos Aires official pointed out that “this change is with the women who are working in the Judiciary, but who are at the base of the pyramid, they do not reach the main chambers, courts or penal places, there is a brutal difference if we compare it with the workers of the courts”.
“When we propose a feminist justice, it has to do with a justice that includes the majority of the population of women, dissidents, and diversities, in order to be able to speak of a truly more democratic justice,” the national deputy told this agency in the same direction. Victoria Donda.
“We need to democratize justice, with a Supreme Court with a gender perspective, with female members and a Council of the Judiciary that is attentive and trained in gender issues,” she said.
In this regard, the founder and president of the Association of Feminist Lawyers (Abofem Argentina), Melisa García, considered: “As a lawyer I see myself with the enormous challenge of making this patriarchal view of justice visible” and highlighted the need for gender parity by highlighting that “in the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) there is not a single woman, only 30% of the hierarchical positions with decision-making power in the judicial sphere are occupied by women, 70% are men”.
Another of the claims revolved around the “indifference and cover-up” of the Judiciary regarding violence against children and adolescents expressed by the group of women Protective Mothers.
“Out of a thousand sexual abuses against children and adolescents, a hundred are reported and of those hundred they reach justice and only one is sentenced,” exemplified the group’s referent, Daniela Doso.
In this regard, he asserted: “There is systematic and patriarchal violence in the judicial system, they are deniers of pedophilia, they leave our sons and daughters in the hands of their abusers.”
Another of the problems exposed during the day was the request for access to Justice and non-discrimination of the transvestite trans group.
“This meeting that brings together all women and diversities leads us to demand gender equality, to denounce the institutional violence that we experience in the streets and that is why we need a transfeminist judicial reform because they also kill trans women,” she told Télam. the referent of the Association of Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgenders of Argentina (ATTTA), Silvana Sosa.
There was no shortage of chants encouraging the “unity of the workers” or the well-known question “How long do you need to understand that it was not magic that a woman leads us?”, as well as the unison cry of “Cristina presidenta” at various times in the afternoon .
The call was joined by representatives of trade unions, political, social and university organizations, as well as women from human rights and feminist NGOs who were in the squares in various locations in the country for “a Feminist Judicial Reform” and to “end discrimination and the persecution of women and dissidence by the Judiciary”.
Among the convening organizations were Mujeres Sindicalistas, the Federal Workers’ Current, unions grouped in the CGT, CTA de los Trabajadores, CTA Autónoma, La Cámpora, 62 Peronist Organizations, UTEP and Fetraes.
They also joined the Peronist Current “April 13”, Union Identity, the Militant Loyalty Current, the National Current of Militancy (BsAs), the Kolina group, Patriotic Generation, United and Organized, New Meeting, among others.
