In the realm of non-justiceimpunity reigns
total silence is imposed
identifications are hidden
clues, facts, and evidence
are ignored
In an act of complicity
requests are not listened to
meetings are not granted
questions are not allowed
laws do not exist.
In act of negligence
they act as if there have never been
evidence of the crimes of
abducting, torturing, raping,
killing girls
who are poor, fragile, defenceless
In an act of infamous impunityNo one discovers
No one accuses
No one judges
No one punishes
The murderer
In an act of absolute injustice!
From Marisa Ortiz of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa:
Be away of the diversionary offers of governments designed to make us think - presenting us with a flower or opening spaces to speak - how beautiful it is to be a woman and to give us hypocritical recognition. If this consciousness of equality really existed, instead of reserving a DAY for women, they would give us a life and worthwhile social, family, and work-related space, treating with respect and recognition for what we do and what we are, not one day, but an entire life. We women don't need a day of tender attentions, or to be told that we very lovely, nor that a prize be given to the best of the year. To hold debates and conferences that remind us of how miserable are the lives of many women in the world, but .... our own lives? the subject of feminicide is avoided. There's no discussion that even recognises that it exists, because doing so implies the responsibity to be coherent and to act consequentially.
We women of Juarez serve our community, our country, and we make an effort every day to make our work better, we only ask for equality and that there should be justice for all.
On the other hand, what is there to celebrate if the macho attitudes of our governments and authorites continue to favour impunity and to look the other way when they know that women continue to be murdered, that hundreds of girls have been abducted by people known to be protected. Indeed, so far, no one has been found as a result of investigations and we have never found out who are the abductors. We know why, because their destroyed bodies, and their terrible wounds speak to us of horrific torture and violence to which they have been subjected before having their lives torn away.
These attitudes of the government have led to an increase in the murder of women, because there are no effective investigations and the perpetrators are never punished - or even looked for. An even worse, they imply that the girls are responsible for their own tragedies because they had relations with people from the world of drug trafficking, or they try to damage their reputations with false accusations.
The violence against women because they are women continues, and it's enough to look at the figures from CasaAmiga on domestic violence, and other figures never recognised by the government of the countless women abducted, raped, and murdered as has been happening since the 1990s - without even counting the hundreds of disappearances, where the family don't even have the consolation of being able to visit the cemetary with a flower or a prayer, because nothing has ever been found out about their fate, but day by day hope dies of finding them alive.
The autorities can no longer deny or hide the fact that the problem persists: there are 29 girls, almost all minors, about whose fate we know nothing; and a similar figure last year. This year 30 girls are being sought by their families. How many women have been murdered is also unknown, but last year more than 80 women were murdered with extreme violence, and no one even mentions the consequences of these losses for their families: damage to physical and mental health, a tremendous strain of the useless search for justice, disintegration of the family and serious economic, social, family, and scholastic problems when the victim leaves children.
Luckily, the National Observatory of Feminicide, of which we are part, has a register not only of every town but also maintains a count in those parts of the country where this terrible phenomenon is most present, and the figures continue to be alarming. Only last year, therewere 733 women murdered in 11 states of the country.
Faced with this, the question is: what is there to celebrate? It would be better that we dedicate this day to teh memory of the victims, and from now on dedicate or efforts, no matter how humble, to trying to put an end to this misogyny that has created this cultural model that permits and tolerates violence against women in this community that we love.
A strong embrace to all who love and defend life as an inalienable right, to my friends and companions ; HAPPY LIFE
Be away of the diversionary offers of governments designed to make us think - presenting us with a flower or opening spaces to speak - how beautiful it is to be a woman and to give us hypocritical recognition. If this consciousness of equality really existed, instead of reserving a DAY for women, they would give us a life and worthwhile social, family, and work-related space, treating with respect and recognition for what we do and what we are, not one day, but an entire life. We women don't need a day of tender attentions, or to be told that we very lovely, nor that a prize be given to the best of the year. To hold debates and conferences that remind us of how miserable are the lives of many women in the world, but .... our own lives? the subject of feminicide is avoided. There's no discussion that even recognises that it exists, because doing so implies the responsibity to be coherent and to act consequentially.
We women of Juarez serve our community, our country, and we make an effort every day to make our work better, we only ask for equality and that there should be justice for all.
On the other hand, what is there to celebrate if the macho attitudes of our governments and authorites continue to favour impunity and to look the other way when they know that women continue to be murdered, that hundreds of girls have been abducted by people known to be protected. Indeed, so far, no one has been found as a result of investigations and we have never found out who are the abductors. We know why, because their destroyed bodies, and their terrible wounds speak to us of horrific torture and violence to which they have been subjected before having their lives torn away.
These attitudes of the government have led to an increase in the murder of women, because there are no effective investigations and the perpetrators are never punished - or even looked for. An even worse, they imply that the girls are responsible for their own tragedies because they had relations with people from the world of drug trafficking, or they try to damage their reputations with false accusations.
The violence against women because they are women continues, and it's enough to look at the figures from CasaAmiga on domestic violence, and other figures never recognised by the government of the countless women abducted, raped, and murdered as has been happening since the 1990s - without even counting the hundreds of disappearances, where the family don't even have the consolation of being able to visit the cemetary with a flower or a prayer, because nothing has ever been found out about their fate, but day by day hope dies of finding them alive.
The autorities can no longer deny or hide the fact that the problem persists: there are 29 girls, almost all minors, about whose fate we know nothing; and a similar figure last year. This year 30 girls are being sought by their families. How many women have been murdered is also unknown, but last year more than 80 women were murdered with extreme violence, and no one even mentions the consequences of these losses for their families: damage to physical and mental health, a tremendous strain of the useless search for justice, disintegration of the family and serious economic, social, family, and scholastic problems when the victim leaves children.
Luckily, the National Observatory of Feminicide, of which we are part, has a register not only of every town but also maintains a count in those parts of the country where this terrible phenomenon is most present, and the figures continue to be alarming. Only last year, therewere 733 women murdered in 11 states of the country.
Faced with this, the question is: what is there to celebrate? It would be better that we dedicate this day to teh memory of the victims, and from now on dedicate or efforts, no matter how humble, to trying to put an end to this misogyny that has created this cultural model that permits and tolerates violence against women in this community that we love.
A strong embrace to all who love and defend life as an inalienable right, to my friends and companions ; HAPPY LIFE
In Ciudad Juárez, young women, mostly from humble backgrounds, have been abducted, kept in captivity, and subjected to ferocious sexual violence before being killed.
Juarez-libro[1]
Ciudad Juarez, la violenza sulle donne in America Latina, l'impunita', la resistenza delle madri.
