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#MiercolesDeMigrantes y el #8M

Yesterday was 8M in Mexico, of course I know internationally speaking was women’s days all around the world. Tho in Latin America we do make a big deal about it, and why not if in our culture we still embrace the word “Macho” or “Latino man” as something positive and exotic. Of course, this helps to perpetuate, and wrongly, normalize violence in our structural society. Long story short you can check the numbers of violence against women in our region here.

But thanks to #8M. I've participated in a social media dynamic with two amazing international organizations. One is Global Thought and Gender Issues.

Both displayed the SDG’s and the 2030Agenda as their main goal to promote, research and work. Gender issues focus a little more on Goal Number 5 and Climate change. Global Thought is focused on international security and human rights, you can check more about them on their web pages and social media.

The dynamic is simple in a reel or story on Instagram, in less than 2 minutes explain briefly ¿what it’s a Foreign Feminists policy? Use the hashtags and label the organizations. My answer was the following.

As a woman as a migranta and as a Mexican an ideal foreign policy should be composed with 5 points.

1. Alligne all the national and local plans with the SDG’s and the 2030 Agenda. Make the focus should be on Goal number 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Currently, the Mexican Senate has a special commission for this, but available information online might not reflect the commitment the state has with implementing this. You can read their last report at this link.

https://comisiones.senado.gob.mx/agenda2030/docs/INV2021.pdf

2. Make all the processes accountable and transparent. Reactivate, investigate, punish, and acknowledge publicly all the damage caused by archiving the reports of sexual misconduct and harassment inside the institution against former staff and high-rank members.

3. A basic Foreign Feminist Policy implies that most prepared and qualified women hold leadership positions. Give significant recognition to women staff that makes things work.

4. Stop simulation only for electoral proposes. Make structural and significant changes in the institutors abroad to achieve real equality, do not politicize the agenda, and focus on giving continuation to the good practices that are already in place.

5. Foreign Feminist Policy means that congress needs to do its job. Approve budgets and laws that have gender perspective analysis on them. Stop dallying the “inconvenience” but a necessary change of laws and just read.

This time I was extremely brief but it's mandatory to make a statement for our freedom of choice, for all 10.5 femicides that happen every our in my country, and for all the violence we need to stop. Thank you for reading and if you are a guy, thank you for giving your voice to a woman, just try it step down and put a woman in your position.