:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/W7JXSBKUXNH63LF3P7DY7UIL4Q.jpg "What is “femicide suicide” and why do they seek to punish it with prison")
Krishna Romerofederal deputy for National Action Party (PAN), aims to punish up to 15 years in prison anyone found guilty of the crime of “femicide suicide”so the day before world women’s daypromoted an initiative to amend the Federal Penal Code (CPF) and where this crime is contemplated.
In order to achieve this purpose, the ITAM teacher explained this Tuesday, March 7, what she means by this new term that she wants to append to the CPF, as well as the importance of this modification, since she has detected that there is an insult development system of the women’s well-being.
In order to assess the suicide as femicideRomero Velázquez clarified that those who exercise it or attempt to exercise it are not persecuted, but rather those who auspiciouseither by persuasion or by establishing a hostile environment towards womenleading him to threaten his integrity or his life.
“Induction and death by suicide in women is often linked to despair due to the sexual, physical, family, emotional or psychological abuse and violence they experience and suffer, femicide suicide being a little visualized problem, in which the aggressor, not being the one who materializes the crime, can go unpunished.
To justify the need to implement this adaptation to the Mexican legal framework, the PAN member stated that, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), during the last years suicides among women have increasedmainly from between 15 and 29 years old. The suicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants in this sector of the population has increased from 2016 to 2021 by 45%, from 3.3 to 4.8.
As if that were not enough, the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) found that in 2022, various indicators of violence against women increased compared to 2021, thus making visible and penalizing the “femicide suicide” It will enable state institutions to care for both victims and their relatives and to prevent this type of crime.
For example, the SESNSP found that certain types of violence against women in Mexico increased by more than 50% in one year: sexual harassment increased by 56%, sexual harassment by 38%, human trafficking by 27%, gender-based violence by 32% and sexual abuse by 21%..
On comparative law, Krishna Romero pointed out that in countries like El Salvador and Chileas well as federal entities of our country such as Jalisco and Yucatanhave advanced in their legislation penalizing those who incite, force or assist a woman to deprive herself of her life for gender reasons after having suffered any type of violence.
“Legislators of the Congress of the Union have an obligation to promote initiatives that allow the adoption of all possible measures to guarantee the greatest protection of the integrity and life of women”
We must not forget that, although Mexico is one of the countries with the most legislation on gender equality and the prevention of violence against women, it is also the one where women are the most raped and killed. Agree with Victoria AlvaDoctor of Law and Globalization, the exercise of violence against women resides more in the context, education and discourses that are reproduced in the cultural industriesonly within the national legal framework.
Moreover, in an exclusive interview for GlobeLiveMedia Mexico, the lawyer clarified that it is necessary that citizens have useful tools to control the authorities dedicated to delivering justice, since the null control of said authorities has a negative impact on the corruption that is rampant in Mexico. Finally, the PAN proposal will be submitted to the committees for their opinion.