*** How Far Have we Come?
*** Then And Now. A Long Ladder to The Top
*** In Mexico, Violence is a ‘Main Enemy’ of Women
By DANTE GONZALEZ / Special to The UNIVERSE News / EL UNIVERSO
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.- Yesterday as Today. The women are global change-makers. Let’s review some data provided by the UN. In order to contextualize women’s movements in the world, and their real impact on societies, and governments of the planet.
The UN explains: “On 1945, The United Nations is born. Following the devastation of World War II, the United Nations forms in 1945 to foster international co-operation. Its charter enshrines gender equality”:“We the peoples…reaffirm faith…in the equal rights of men and women”.
“It is one of many steps the UN takes to lay a foundation for women’s rights: In 1946, the Commission on the Status of Women becomes the first global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to gender equality; and in 2010, UN Women become the first UN agency to champion exclusively for women’s rights.”
Memorable speech: “To the women of the world. In the inaugural session of the UN General Assembly in 1946, American ELEANOR ROOSEVELT famously reads an “open letter to the women of the world”, urging for their increased involvement in national and international affairs.”
“Translated into more than 500 languages and dialects today, the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) for the first time in human history spells out the basic rights and fundamental freedoms that all human beings — men and women alike — should enjoy.”
“The number of women, representing a tenth of the nation’s population, who gather at Iceland’s capital Reykjavik in 1975 to protest economic inequality. The “Women’s Day Off” puts the city’s services, schools and business at a virtual standstill.”
“On 1970s. A first, Activists unite: The first International Women’s Year, the first UN Decade for Women, and the first world conference on women in Mexico escalates global discourse on women’s rights.”
“Dubbed the “Women’s Bill of Rights”, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is the most comprehensive international instrument to protect the human rights of women.”
“Then and now. A long ladder to the top. More than a century since the women’s suffrage movement begins, and decades of vigorous activism later, women in a vast number of the world’s countries can vote by the 1980s. In contrast, women are still fighting to take on leadership positions today. How far have we come?”.
“On 1993, Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. The first international instrument to explicitly address and define forms of violence against women.”
“In 1994, The ICPD Programme of Action. A 23-year action plan that puts people and their rights at the heart of development and recognizes women’s sexual and reproductive health as key to everyone’s well-being.”
“Over 1995. Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. A comprehensive framework adopted at the Fourth World Conference for Women with a road map of actions under 12 critical areas to advance women’s rights.”
“For 2000, UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The first UN legal and political framework to recognize that war impacts women differently and to call for women’s participation in conflict prevention and resolution.”
“Definition: Activism. From hunger strikes and human chains to petitions and memes, activism comes in many shapes and forms to provoke change.”
“Similar to the advent of the printer, radio and television, the internet and mobile phone have dramatically transformed the landscape of how people campaign. Some scholars caution that ‘passive’ involvement online (slacktivism) will decrease active involvement offline.”
“Okay, we are all a little guilty. But with social media often being employed as a means to organize, express outrage and draw awareness to taboo or previously silenced topics, the women’s rights movement might be proving otherwise.”
In Mexico, women’s rights are trampled on, every day. From 2018 to 2023. The Government of the 4T headed by President ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR which has pending social debts with women to pay, whose violence harasses them daily.
This explains, to a large extent, how women’s anger, rage and impotence emerge. When they take to the streets to protest – according to experts – in Mexico, City, and other parts of the Mexican Republic.
As happened last March 8, in the capital of the Aztec country, thousands of women came out to protest against abuses, crimes and all kinds of injustices, which in the XXI century affect the female population.
Hundreds of femicides, thousands of disappearances of women was the collective cry of repudiation, against such barbaric acts. For a few hours Mexico, City was paralyzed by the angry protests of women demanding justice.
A heartbreaking cry, “Not one more murdered woman” was heard during the defiant women’s march. They were seen with great poise and confidence, launching their slogans that enveloped a lack of justice, which has been denied in Mexico for decades.
