Through the book “Feminist Sentences” Rewriting Justice with a Gender Perspective” activists and academics in gender in the legal field they write how in Mexico the sentences that women receive are made without a gender perspective.
This has caused an endless number of negative events in the sentences of women or people of sexual diversity, who may be in prison for crimes they did not commit or even that the appropriate legal processes are not followed in cases of violationnot feminicides.
The presentation of the book was held at the facilities of the Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination of Mexico City (COPRED) where the authors of the book, the owner of the COPPERD, Geraldina Gonzalez, Isabel Montoya Ramos, Researcher at the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation; Rogelio Flores, Institute of Constitutional Studies of the State of Querétaro and Francisca Pou, Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the UNAM.
Rogelio Flores mentioned in his participation that the book is unique in the Latin American region and that it fulfills two functions, the first an act of activism in the face of legal injustices towards women and the second, a utilitarian tool, that is, resolving conflicts with an equality perspective.
Francisco Pou de la UNAM, He mentions that the book is not only aimed at people who know about law, but also at a broader public, since it shows through real sentences that have been carried out, how a sentence should be made with gender perspective, for which he highlighted its pedagogical power.
More than 30 authors denounce sentences without a gender perspective
Sentences are not made with a gender perspective denounced through book: COPRED. Photo: Odarys Guzman
The book is written by 30 authors, which implied a challenge, mentioned Isabel Montoya and coordinator of the book who were in charge of writing real cases, of real victims.
The book contains 14 sentences from all instances of different topics where real cases of resolutions that involve the integration of a gender perspective to the cases are explained, especially from officials who exercise violence for not driving this perspective.
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Among the 14 sentences you can find cases of women that they have been given sentences for being “bad mothers”, judgment on paternity sentences, cases on compensatory pensions until reaching criminal cases of protection to cases of discrimination against lesbian women, corruption of minors, homicide in self-defense, among others.
The presentation was also attended by Irinea Buendía, mother of Mariana Lima, murdered by her husband, a judicial police officer. Her search for justice for the femicide of her daughter laid the foundations for how femicide cases should be investigated with a gender perspective.
contacting COPRED or downloading the PDF file at the UNAM Legal Research Institute.
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