Centre for Women’s Human Rights (CEDEHM) began its work in 2006 with the objective of representing, empowering and contributing to achieving access to justice for girls and women victims of gender-based violence in Chihuahua, Mexico. Luz Estela (Lucha) Castro, Gabino Gómez and Alma Gómez founded the organization, based on their experience in denouncing - together with other activists and the mothers of the victims - the femicides and disappearances of women. This problem has meant to the Mexican State more than 400 international recommendations, as well as the emblematic sentence known as "Campo Algodonero" (Case of González and Others v. Mexico).
CEDEHM was the first organization of the Mexican civil society that litigated cases of gender violence in the accusatory criminal system, which came into force in this state of the Mexican Republic in 2006. Victims of family violence, sexual violations, feminicide, trafficking, sexual abuse and other gender crimes could make their voices heard in the courts from the legal, educational and psychosocial accompaniment that the CEDEHM provides them for free. The precedents that CEDEHM has achieved in the litigation of cases are innumerable, highlighting the gender perspective in judicial decisions with international standards and the balance of the victims' rights in judicial processes.
After the start of the "joint operation Chihuahua" derived from the so-called "war against drug trafficking" promoted by President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), the violence was exacerbated in the State, making it the entity with more homicides in Mexico, and placing Ciudad Juarez as the most violent city on the planet. The violence had a special impact against the civilian population and, in particular, against women.
MISSION
They are a feminist organization that promotes and defends the full validity of the human rights of victims of gender-based violence in the accusatory criminal system, forced and involuntary disappearance and human rights defenders through activism, strategic litigation, legal literacy and empowerment. emotional.
VISION
To be an organization that generates and shares successful experiences of access to justice, political advocacy and empowerment of victims of violations of their human rights.
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