Friday, January 31, 2014

Gender equality board created

Friday, 31 January 2014 00:10
thenews.com.mx

 
Felipe de Jesús Álvarez Cibrián, president of the Jalisco Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ), announced on Wednesday that the state government will launch a new gender equality commission, which he said would promote institutional equality between men and women.

Álvarez Cibrián said that work on the new commission, which he said will be based on the model of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), will formally begin in February.

He went on to say that the goal of the gender equality commission will be to defend and promote the equality of women, as they are increasingly the victims of violations of their human rights.

The support of the CNDH has been essential, Álvarez Cibrián said, in developing mechanisms and policies to achieve the comprehensive development of Jalisco families. He added that this work requires interim strategies to implement a gender equality perspective across the bord, from handling complaints and criminal charges to training state and municipal public servants.

According to Álvarez Cibrián, it’s important to analyze gender equality from a sociological aspect to determine how to best modify the state’s laws, adding that this is the best way to promote peace, eliminate discrimination and violence and create a society based on the respect for human rights.

“The criminal violence that exists in our society, without doubt, has a an origin, and the most important origin is the family,” he said. “Important questions arise that have a connection to these phenomena that begin with the family.”

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