Interpretation, implementation and challenges: The Gender violence against women Alert in México

Abstract

The analysis of the Violence against Women Alert is done from a human rights perspective in order to situate the scopeof this mechanism within the framework of the commitments adopted by Mexico in the international arena, whose observance is mandatory since 2011. Subsequently, a revision of the General Law for the Women Access of a Life Free of Violence is done, to determine the scope of the Alert, focusing on its articulation with the feminicide violence and institutional violence concepts in order to precise the interpretation of the objective of the Alert and its implementation. The design of this mechanism has been a contender arena, which can be seen in the presence of some elements that seeks to restrict the implementation of the Alert inside its own normative. Afterwards the declaration, implementation and monitoring processes of the Alert where it was activated, are analyzed to identify aspects that must be reviewed or strengthened in the normative, interpretation and implementation of the Alert, taking up international human right standars, to seek this policy be more effective to combat feminicide violence.