“Unattended”, a mechanism for gender violence alerts at a decade of created, they claim NGOs

Carolina Gómez and Jessica Xantomila

La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, August 3, 2025, p. 7

A decade that the first alert of gender violence against women (AVGM) was decreed in Mexico, the mechanism is absolutely unattendeddespite having been recognized by the United Nations as an innovative strategy to prevent and combat femicides. Given this, civil groups that have been petitioner struggle for their reactivation.

The situation began to deteriorate almost two years ago, since the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women (Conavim) was accusing, after Fabiola Alanís resigned at the end of 2023 to join the electoral process.

Things worsened with the extinction of said deconcentrated body of the Ministry of the Interior when last January, the new Secretariat of Women assumed part of their functions.

For months, the groups have pressed for an answer on the future of the AVGM and even denounced their paralysis before the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in the evaluation of the Mexican State in mid -June. In Mexico there are 26 AVGM declared in 23 entities.

María de la Luz Estrada, director of the National Citizen Observatory of Feminicide (OCNF), said that at a meeting with the women’s secretary, Citlalli Hernández Mora, after sending a letter in which they denounced the deficiencies, it was agreed that next week a technical table will be installed to discuss the issue. He added that it is expected that at measure, the multidisciplinary inter -institutional groups (GIM) of monitoring of the AVGM resume works.

Gloria Ramírez Hernández, coordinator of the UNESCO Unesco Chair of the UNAM and advisor to the National Network of Alertists, said A The day than alerts They are one of the few mechanisms with very high participation of civil societyand that largely force accountability to States and municipalities around the actions they must take to prevent and combat gender aggressions.

According to official figures, from 2015 to June 2025, 8,754 femicides have been reported. So far this year, five federative entities concentrate 32.8 percent of the victims: State of Mexico, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Morelos and Mexico City.

Ana Elena Contreras, founder of the Civil Association Las del Aquelarre Feminist criticized that in women’s timethat mechanism against gender aggressions is detained. The last meeting of the GIM, in the case of the capital of the country, was at the end of last year, denounced.