El informe completo del Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE), una asociación civil sin fines de lucro fundada en 1991, se puede consultar de manera completa en el vínculo informe2015.gire.org.mx.
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At an event in which representatives of the United Nations (UN) reported that Yucatan is one of the states where most maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and 45 days after birth are recorded.
As part of the presentation in the capital of the report "Girls and women without justice. Reproductive rights in Mexico ", was unveiled in the State has an index of 46-65 deaths of mothers per 100,000 births.
That percentage is also higher in southern states such as Campeche, Quintana Roo and Oaxaca, among others.
The problem is less in states like Aguascalientes, Jalisco and Nuevo Leon, where the rate is 14 to 30 deaths per 100,000 births.
The highest maternal mortality rate in Yucatan is recorded in the southern part of the state, according to the report of the Information Group on Reproductive Choice (TURN), civil aasociación founded in 1991 to promote and protect the reproductive rights of women.
Regina Tames Noriega, director of TURN, said that in states with high rates of maternal mortality, especially in the south of the country, lack of public policies do governments aimed at curbing this trend.
"Otherwise the deaths of women continue to grow," he said.
The deaths of women in Yucatán for maternity-related causes was one of the issues in the report "Girls and women without justice. Reproductive rights in Mexico "by the Information Group on Reproductive Choice (TURN).
Civil association founded in 1991 to promote and protect the reproductive rights of women, in the framework of human rights, said that in the south of the country is focused on the problem of maternal deaths, and between entities is Yucatan.
The report offered TURN Thursday 13 at an event at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Chapultepec Park, to the officials of the United Nations (UN), national and foreign journalists present, and representatives of associations focused on the struggle for the rights of women in the country.
Regina Tames Noriega, director of TURN, reiterated that the highest maternal mortality rate in the case of Yucatan, is concentrated in the southern part of the state.
He also explained that it has a mortality rate of over 200% with respect to the entities that have the lowest rate of maternal mortality.
The states where most maternal deaths occur either during pregnancy, childbirth and 45 days after birth are Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo and Yucatan, where it has an index of 46-65 deaths per 100,000 births, in contrast to the 14-30 deaths per 100,000 births recorded by the states of Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Colima, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Tabasco and Tlaxcala, banks with lower rates mortality.
Regina Tames said that in states with high rates of maternal mortality, especially in the south, lack of public policies do governments aimed at curbing this trend and a significant improvement in health systems. "Otherwise the deaths of women continue to grow," he said.
"The most unfortunate thing is that governments are not interested finish background with this problem," stressed Regina Tames.
During TURN report the case of Maria Rosalia Mukul Chan, municipality of Chacsinkín, whom the report is identified as "Lydia" was discussed.
The woman died last year expecting twins give birth as a result of delayed medical care at the community hospital Peto, about 10 kilometers northwest of the head of the municipality in southern Yucatan.
In that case, the National Human Rights Commission issued a recommendation, however, according to the report, the institution is vague and does not provide a comprehensive reparations measures.
"As this (case Chacsinkín woman) there are many others that the authorities themselves do not want to know," said the director of TURN.
The report, condensed into six chapters, is a snapshot of the tragic situation in which women and girls live their reproductive lives in Mexico.
In the document was released, it was reported that according to the state where a girl or a woman of childbearing age can live free from discrimination. You may be denied access to health services or contraceptives, especially if it is minor or indigenous. You can also die in childbirth or after this because do not track the health status of women; or aborted, the offender may be considered. "All this because we have a health system failed," said Regina Tames.
Litigation
In the past two years, TURN and attended and litigated 39 cases of girls and women who suffered the violation of their reproductive rights in 18 states, related to contraception, abortion, obstetric violence, maternal death, assisted reproduction and working life.
Nine of these disputes relate to minors and of these, eight are girls who were denied legal access to abortion even when the pregnancy resulted from rape.
"Since the law does not change, that public policies are wrong and the system of justice is no impunity, what we are trying is to influence not only the legislative and executive powers, but through the court, with litigation strategies Front to seek justice, "said Regina Tames.
For his part, journalist and political scientist Denise Dresser Guerra, who attended the TURN report, said that "to the extent not recognize reproductive rights are being denied women an essential part of their right to be citizen full body: with brains, hands, feet and uterus.
TURN Report Data
The journalist Denise Dresser spoke about the work of TURN for women.
Incomplete democracy
According to the editorial of Diario de Yucatán, if not begin to recognize, protect and legislate reproductive rights of women in Mexico, "we will remain an incomplete democracy."
Public politics
The journalist said he needs public policies and that the government include in its agenda the immediate attention to violence against women and criminalization.
More report
The full report of the Information Group on Reproductive Choice (TURN), a private non-profit organization founded in 1991, is available in full on the link informe2015.gire.org.mx.
