Salvatierra, Gto., September 1, 2016. With the intention to provide elements for the reflection and correct decision making to protect women, the University of Guanajuato (UG), edited "Femicides and femicide violence. De/humanizing our contexts," a text that compiles research articles in the subject.
The book is the result of the research project "Gender, Violence and Margination in Basic Level and High Level Schools in south Guanajuato," financed by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), where they observed that part of the context gives place to violence on schools.
In the presentation of the work, the General Rector of UG, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, commented that an aspect of the book to highlight is that it gathers different disciplinary points of view, and –paraphrasing José Emilio Pacheco—considered that "Femicides and femicide violence" is a necessary book for the subject it addresses.
Dr. Guerrero, who collaborates with the chapter called "The tortuous path of the criminal legal regulation of femicide" explained that his collaboration focus in the analysis of this legal type parting from the reform to the Penal Code of Guanajuato, and plans that the State proposes efficient policies of prevention of violence.
In her intervention, Dr. Rocio Rosas Vargas, one of the book's coordinators, explained that the book gathers some the work presented in the First National Colloquium on Femicide and Femicide Violence, made in 2014.
The work is also coordinated by Julio Morales López of the center of Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), and Salvador González Andrade, from the "El Colegio de la Frontera Norte" (COLEF).
The talks of the colloquium were the base of the text, but enriched with other contributions, such as the text from Verónica Cruz Sánchez, Director of the Civil Association "Las Libres," who shares her experience –acquired throughout 14 years— "compiling statistics, complaining and demanding justice on the growing number of Femicides." She sustains that it is necessary to encourage a culture of gender equity to stop this problem.
Although in the book the bigger part of the work done concentrates in the analysis of the femicide in Guanajuato, there is a chapter on "Femicides in a context of violence in Sinaloa," state that occupies one of the first national places in the commission of this crime.
While Norma Iris Cacho describes how the conflict for land in Chiapas has led to murder women, in "Femicide violence and territory dispossession in Chiapas: women bodies and land in dispute," complaints about the paramilitary using rape and murder as a pressure form to dispossess the communities from their lands.
According coordinators of the text, "Femicides and femicide violence. De/humanizing our contexts," is a work that seeks to maintain the victims present and the violence isn't not punished; as well as contributing in the construction of a more equal society and with bigger levels of wellbeing for men and women.
At the ceremony, as commentator was, Dr. Ivy Jacaranda Jasso Martinez, who remarked the inclusion of works from students, as well as from three civil organizations "Las Libres," the "Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir" and "Water & Life."
To the presentation attended the Rector of Campus Celaya-Salvatierra, Dr. Ma. Guadalupe Ojeda Vargas; the Academic Secretary of Campus, Dr. Silvia del Carmen Delgado Sandoval, and the Director of the Department of Social Studies, Dr. Benito Rodríguez Haros, among other members of the university community.
