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In 2010, the United Nations (un) acknowledged the human right to water and urged nation states to provide safe, clean, accessible and affordable drinking water, as well as sanitation for all. In 2012, the Mexican Constitution was reformed to guarantee this right. This paper examines how social inequality hinders the exercise of the said human right to water in San Jerónimo Tecóatl, a municipality located in the Mazatec Sierra in the State of Oaxaca. Data was gathered using quantitative and qualitative techniques: open-ended interviews, closed questionnaires and workshops, along with tours throughout the Mazatec territory. The analysis focuses on three expressions of inequality: rurality, ethnicity and gender. Regarding the first, the paper shows that the potable water network was not established until the 1980s, and that to this day it provides a poor service, with water shortages for as much as three months per year. Second, the Mazatec territory was fractionalized and indigenous forms of organization regarding water management were weakened due to the construction of dams and the professionalization of municipal governments. Third, the female population is the most affected by water shortages and has no decision-making power with regard to water management. The paper concludes that the social inequalities expressed in terms of rurality, ethnic and gender differences, hinder the full exercise of the human right to water in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on gender violence has been conducted since the sixties. The problem has been conceptualized and documented, although not necessarily looked after. Oaxaca stands out as one of the states where women are more likely to be attacked. This paper analyzes gender violence in Ayutla, a Mixe community of Oaxaca. Data were gathered through quantitative and qualitative methods. The main results are: psychological violence is the most common one; numerous cases of incest and ravishment occur; economic violence generally involves men totally abandoning women; local and State authorities exercise institutional violence by neglecting women s charges. The paper analyzes women's discursive strategies to re-signify their rights, and a successful case of rape within marriage which strengthened the struggle for such rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the paper lies in analyzing the nature of political participation of women within the various human rights organizations in the province of La Pampa, rescuing them as historical subjects and protagonists of our history. We start to understand participation as a way of self-asserting in society as a legitimate way of claiming our rights as citizens and the citizenship as appropriative practice of existing rights and producer of new rights. It is in the field of human rights organizations at national and local level where participation in general and women in particular enabled the reconstruction of the threads of community and political solidarity corrupted by systematical state violence. Through oral history, is to rescue the voices of women who were active participants in the task of establishing, in pampas society in particular and Argentina in general, demand for justice and the recovery of individual and collective rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the theoretical progress that relates the problems concerning criminal law, procedural criminal law, gender theory and feminism, making a brief description of the contribution given by national and foreign authors. It tries to reach a theoretical perspective that helps the critic interpretations of criminal law and preserves the non-discriminatory bias of gender theory and feminism, as long as disciplines belonging to the human rights paradigm. The last issue is not always possible to reach, since contradictions and valuable contributions, although tense among them, can be found. On the one hand, those tensions between gender theory and criminal law difficult the possibility of having an extensive discourse about the needs of specific groups, especially women that are caught in the punitive power nets. On the other hand, the same tensions lead to the discussion about women and the judicial discourse, as this is a powerful instrument that creates law subject and crystallizes social relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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