Interview with women in San Felipe regarding forced medical examination
Title | Título:
Interview with women in San Felipe regarding forced medical examination
Other title | Título alternativo:
Martha Figueroa b-roll
Description | Descripción:
The Women's Caucus was formed in February 1997, to intervene in the ongoing Preparatory Committee meetings for the establishment of an International Criminal Court at the United Nations. Women realized that without an organized caucus, women's concerns would not be actively defended in the documents and process of creation of an International Criminal Court. The legal issues in the ICC are complex and sensitive. They require people from different legal systems and cultures to arrive at a consensus on specific issues that may challenge local traditions or beliefs. The gender-related issues are particularly sensitive, as they are not as well understood. Gender-related crimes are often perceived to be private or individual crimes that do not rise to the level of international human rights law, or that are perceived to be taken care of by a "neutral" statute. However, the experience of women has been that neutrality usually results in leaving out crimes against women and the ways that women, because of their socially constructed roles in society, are disproportionately affected. It was these concerns that the Women""s Caucus sought to address in the process of creation of an International Criminal Court. By advocating the codification of crimes of sexual, reproductive and gender violence, and inclusion of gender sensitive processes and criteria for personnel, the Caucus tried to ensure that the Court has capacity to implement justice for women. | Martha Figueroa and Monica Angeles get into a taxi. Cut to shots from exterior of a school. Children and their parents mill around the entrance. Martha and a boy walk from the school together. There is an interview with a woman, followed by an interview with a teenaged girl about being forced to undress and undergo a medical examination. The girl explains that while she was taking care of her cousins, the police approached her and her mother, then took them away to jail in a truck. When they got to a jail, a doctor made them undress so she could be examined. The doctor said that if they did not undress, four other soldiers would come in. The girl was then taken to juvenile hall, where she was given a uniform and stayed until the next day.
Contributor | Contribuidor:
WITNESS (Creator) and Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (Creator)
unedited footage, metraje sin editar, moving image, interviews, entrevistas, b-roll, and b-roll
Extent | Alcance:
20 minutes, 59 seconds
Rights - Use & Reproduction | Derechos - uso & reproducción:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language | Idioma:
English and Spanish
Place of publication | Lugar de publicación:
Brooklyn (N.Y.)
Topic | Tema:
Civil and political rights--Women's rights, Mujeres--Derechos--Derechos políticos y civiles, Armed conflict and persecution--Domestic violence, Conflicto armado y persecución--Violencia doméstica, Armed conflict and persecution--Sexual violence, Conflicto armado y persecución--Violencia sexual, Civil and political rights--Children's rights, and Niños--Derechos--Derechos políticos y civiles
Place Name | Nombre del lugar:
North and Central America--Mexico--Chiapas--San Felipe and América del Norte y Central--México--Chiapas--San Felipe
General Note | Notas generales:
A/D flag: physDigital; Generation: original; Signal format: NTSC; Carrier number 1 of 1.
UTL DAMS PID:
hrdi:ac4beff5-582e-481b-a4a8-6745a9777224
Local Identifier| Identificador local :
B01439-0_01_25_08 and witness_ihwe_3110
Related Resource – Host | Recursos relacionados:
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice's Footage for "If Hope Were Enough" Documentary (title) and https://txarchives.org/hrdi/finding_aids/00005.xml (uri)