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482. In addition, the State mentioned that the Chihuahua Women’s Institute
(hereinafter “the ICHIMU”) had been created in August 2002, “to promote equal
opportunities in education, training, health, employment and development and to
strengthen the full exercise of women’s rights and promote a culture of non-violence in
order to eliminate all forms of discrimination” and, in accordance with the decree
creating the ICHIMU, to implement public policies that promote the integral
development of women and their full participation in economic, social, political, family
and cultural life.465 The State indicated that the ICHIMU works on two fronts: the
institutionalization of a gender perspective and the prevention of violence against
women.
483. In the context of planning and programming in the state of Chihuahua, the
Court notes that information was presented on the five following instruments: (i) the
2004-2010 State Development Plan for Chihuahua (hereinafter “the PEDCH”); (ii) the
Program to Improve the Status of Women; (iii) the Integral Program to Guarantee the
Right of Women to a Life without Violence; (iv) the Program to provide Services to
Victims of Crime, and (v) the Comprehensive Public Security Program in 2003 and
2004.
484. The PEDCH includes the following strategies: (i) promotion of participation and
decision mechanisms for women, ensuring their collaboration in initiatives that lead to
increased gender equity; (ii) raising the awareness of society and the government
concerning a gender perspective; (iii) emphasis on access to justice and obtaining
justice for the defense and protection of women and the family; (iv) promotion of legal
reforms that protect women in abusive situations; (v) increasing institutional training
and information activities on health care for women, and (vi) promotion of the
organization and implementation of productive projects that result in diversification of
sources of employment and income for women, especially indigenous women and
those living in underprivileged rural and urban areas.466
485. According to the State, the purpose of the Program to Improve the Status of
Women, coordinated by the State Population Council of the state of Chihuahua, is to
enhance inter-institutional actions and efforts to promote the integral development of
women which generate conditions and information that allow women to exercise their
rights and freedoms fully.
486. In addition, according to the State, the Comprehensive Program to ensure the
right of women to a life without violence, coordinated by the Chihuahua State System
for the Integral Development of the Family (hereinafter “DIF”), promotes a culture of
non-violence, especially against women, and a culture of reporting acts of violence
perpetrated against women, girls, boys and the elderly, including actions addressed at
the indigenous peoples. Among DIF actions, the State highlighted various programs,
forums, information seminars, workshops and activities.467 The Program to provide
Services to Victims of Crime has been implemented since 1998 by the FEIHM (supra
para. 270), but it was restructured at the beginning of 2004;468 the State indicated
465
Cf. Decree No. 274/02-II-P.O. of May 30, 2002 (case file of attachments to the answer to the
application, volume XLIII, attachment 112, folios 16179 to 16193).
466
Cf. Report of the Office of the Attorney General for the state of Chihuahua, supra note 463, folio
14944.
467
Cf. Report of the Office of the Attorney General for the state of Chihuahua, supra nota 463, folios
14951 and 14952.
468
In February 2004, the database of the National Registry of Victims of Crime was installed in the
FEIHM, and the creation of the Forensic Genetics Database was announced (Cf. Office of the Special
Prosecutor for the Investigation of Crimes related to the Murders of Women in the Municipality of Juárez,
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