María Elena Ramos, Director of the Compañeros Program. Photography: Rey R. Jauregui / La Verdad
#NoExcuse The lack of attention and care for women with AIDS, hepatitis and tuberculosis, women who use drugs, women in sex work, trans women and all those in situations of vulnerability and exclusion, the needs of Ciudad Juárez
editorial Truth/Photos: Rey R. Jauregui
Members of the Compañeros program denounce that the greatest manifestation of violence is murder, but there are other forms of violence that kill women in Chihuahua, including abandonment and a lack of services.
This Friday, they laid a wreath at the crucifixion, demanding an end to violence against all women in the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, celebrated on November 25 (25N).
“We are gathered here to demand an end to violence against all women; these powers are exercised in the absence of action by the state and its institutions,” said Maria Elena Ramos Rodríguez, the organization’s director. , is exercised on the streets, in communities, in society, and in the privacy of families. ” She was accompanied by representatives of Ciudad Juárez’s women’s movement.
The Compañeros Program is an organization dedicated to the prevention, care, education and research of HIV/AIDS, injection drug addiction, violence and related problems, with programs and projects targeting various social groups that are disadvantaged and providing confidential services. ,sensitive and professional.
“We want to show all women who experience violence that they are not alone and that they contact social organizations and institutions that deal with violence and that they talk to women about their support networks and families,” María Elena ) said while reading the position on 25N. .
Women placed flowers on a nail cross on Juarez Avenue at the entrance to the driveway of the Paso del Norte International Bridge that connects downtown to El Paso, Texas.
“Today we place this wreath on the crucifixion to commemorate the women who were murdered by a country that was indifferent to structural violence and did not create conditions for the full development of women,” he said. “There is no more one.”
The Crucifixion is a monument that exposes the problem of femicide in Ciudad Juárez.
In addition to laying flowers at the memorial, women gathered at the site wrote the names of women who had been murdered or died due to abandonment and lack of services such as medical care.
“We want to mention them in terms of the social factors that affect their lives. To women living with HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C, drug users, women working in sex work, transgender women,” during the event held this Friday and all women in one or more situations of vulnerability and exclusion”. Morning.
#ThereIsNoExcuse Not seeing them, not seeing them age prematurely, ignoring their illnesses, denying them medical emergencies, one reads.
#ThereIsNoExcuse To judge them, to look at them in disgust, to justify what happened to them because they did drugs, did sex work, had a disease that makes for bad women, or because they fell in love with the wrong person, in the end we all have to be Know what kind of woman she is. woman.
