Interview with Sara Santiz Gomez, victim of forced sterilization in Chiapas, part 2
Title | Título:
Interview with Sara Santiz Gomez, victim of forced sterilization in Chiapas, part 2
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. | Continuation of interview with Sara Santiz Gomez, a woman who was sterilized by a doctor at a state-run hospital without her knowledge in August 1999. She speaks in Tzeltal, which is translated into Spanish by her husband, and then in English by Monica Angeles. Sara and her husband were worried about the operation and the complications that followed after the surgery. The doctors gave her a prescription from a private pharmacy to get the medicine, which was very expensive. The interview is moved indoors, where Sara is seated with her family. She talks about how her choice to have children was taken away, and discuss how difficult it has been to try to get justice; the doctor is still practicing. They also went to a ministry, who questioned why the family wanted more children. She says that she continues to fight because she knows that it is right, and that she has documentation to prove it. The video ends with a close-ups of official documents.
Contributor | Contribuidor:
WITNESS (Creator) and "Women's Caucus for Gender Justice" (Creator)
unedited footage, metraje sin editar, moving image, interviews, and entrevistas
Extent | Alcance:
01 hours, 27 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--Children's rights, Niños--Derechos--Derechos políticos y civiles, Economic, social, and cultural rights--Economic and labor rights--Poverty, Derechos económicos, sociales y culturales--Derechos económicos y laborales--Pobreza, Armed conflict and persecution--Domestic violence, Conflicto armado y persecución--Violencia doméstica, Civil and political rights--Reproductive justice, Derechos políticos y civiles--Justicia reproductiva, Armed conflict and persecution--Sexual violence, Conflicto armado y persecución--Violencia sexual, Advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--Activists, and Defensa, activismo y respuestas a la persecución--Activistas
Place Name | Nombre del lugar:
North and Central America--Mexico--Chiapas and América del Norte y Central--México--Chiapas
General Note | Notas generales:
A/D flag: physDigital; Generation: original; Signal format: NTSC; Carrier number 1 of 1.
UTL DAMS PID:
hrdi:e2a273ae-d44b-46ea-8828-43c3260a66ee
Local Identifier| Identificador local :
B01436-0_00_00_15 and witness_ihwe_7226
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)