Gender Equality Unit of the NCHR organizes a conversatory with experts on gender themes. The conversatory is part of series of events that the Gender Equality Unit of the National Human Rights Commission promotes as part of the program of training, sensitization and information regarding all the topics related to gender equality, non-discrimination, inclusion, diversity, etcetera.
The event was held within the framework of International Women’s Day, where the historical struggle that has taken place, part of the historical demands to build spaces free of violence and to build projects where women can make decisions about their life project, about their bodies and about each of the aspects where obstacles have been encountered. One of these obstacles is that the issue of harassment and sexual harassment has been a constant in the workplace and is one of the pending challenges.
In response to the urgency of building violence-free workplaces and the concern that nine out of ten women experience physical or sexual violence in the workplace, according to INEGI statistics, and that throughout their lives they have not requested support or reported the incident to any authority, also as a result of institutional violence. Patriarchal and misogynist behaviors generate stereotypes towards women that have been directed to unpaid work and to occupy only positions traditionally assigned to women, as well as to face sexual violence in public and private spaces.
The International Labor Organization and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women identify sexual harassment as an expression of gender discrimination and as a particular form of violence against women. They point out that sexual harassment is a violation of the fundamental rights of workers and constitutes a problem of health and safety at work and an unacceptable work situation.
The CNDH generates this space in order to prevent, attend, punish, repair and contribute to the reflection in the framework of generating a new proposal for a protocol of attention to cases of harassment and sexual harassment from perspectives of restorative and restorative justice towards memory, justice and non-repetition of each of the violence.
Dr. Lucía Núñez Rebolledo, Ms. Nocile Huete Guevara and Jessica Marjane Durán Franco were specially invited to this panel for their trajectory, performance and activism. More information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRoeBdZiwZI |
