CNDH and Ni Una Menos A.C. Sign a Collaboration Agreement to Strengthen and Streamline Attention to Victims
Attention for women victims of violence.
Faced with the increase in femicides, violence against women and many other crimes that daily leave thousands of victims throughout the country, this May 6 the civil association Ni Una Menos México Frente Nacional and the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) signed a collaboration agreement whose objective is to give continuity, formalize and strengthen the actions of attention to victims and human rights defense that have been carried out in a coordinated manner in the last two years.
The President of the National Commission, María del Rosario Piedra Ibarra, pointed out that is quite unfortunate that women in this country have to remain claiming and struggling for their human rights to be respected, but she trusted that with actions such as this agreement, the way in which victims are attended to in this country is changing. “I am pleased that we are finally signing this agreement that we established since September 2020.
For this CNDH it is a new way of working: when we said that we are here to defend the victims, they were no words, they were and are deeds. The fact of signing this agreement commit both parties to innovate and to work, not to be mere symbolism. That this headquarters becomes a CNDH’s center of attention in which victims also collaborate to provide solutions to all that is established here.” Yesenia Zamudio Solórzano, President of Ni Una Menos México Frente Nacional, indicated that is regrettable that so many people, women and men are united by such a painful situation as having lost their daughters and sons, but added that this union, this National Front, must serve to change our country’s destiny.
For his part, the Executive Secretary of the CNDH, Francisco Estrada Correa, asked that through this agreement, timely follow-up be given to Recommendation 43/2020, which indicate that authorities of the three government branches have implemented “insufficient” strategies to stop gender violence and femicides.
More information:
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2021-05/COM_Conjunto_2021_005.pdf