Bulletin Rigoberta Menchu Number 1_English

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Who we are….

Project

The Project RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ is an initiative that comes into existence to

sensitize, to inform and to advice about gender violence in all social environmentsclose to foreign women. It is about a public and free service directed to all

institutions as public as private, working in the network of immigration.

The project relies on the financing of the Viceconsejería of Social Politics and

Immigration and is managed by the Association for Integrated Development of

Women MERCEDES MACHADO. Its basic principles are promotion of all necessary

actions for overcoming the gender inequalities and empowering of women in the

Tenerife Island, in coordination with the other Associations.

The reality of the immigrant women in the actual context of our space is marked

by the triple discrimination they support being immigrant, worker and woman.

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Rigoberta MenchúCommunity Intervention Network for the Prevention of Gender Violence in Foreign Women

This bulletin tries to be a

digital tool for the information,news, actualities and activities

of interest.

"The woman with an imagination isable to project not only the life of thefamily or the society, but also the

future of the millennium" (RigobertaMenchú, Nobel Peace Prize).



Foreign Women’s vulnerability to the gender violence

Foreign woman who is victim of gender violence meets a series offactors related to cultural, structural and work problems, that generate asituation of great fragility, usually derived from their precarious and irregular

situation, which not only moves them away from the accusation of violence,but also from the institutions of guardianship and protection.

So, statistics say that until November 3rd, 2011, there have been 53mortal victims of Gender violence, from which 18 were foreign nationalities.But we have to add, that from those 53 women only 14 had formalized thecorresponding complaint.

By the other hand, from January 1st to August 31st of this year, 587

temporary residence and work permits have been granted to the foreignwomen, who are victims of gender violence.

Our services

Contacta con nosotras….

922 310 324 y 685 880 294 [email protected]

Advice and information for the Public and Private Entities participating with the collective ofimmigrants on the subject of Equality and Gender Violence.

Periodic technical meetings with professionals and responsibles of the Public and PrivateEntities related to Equality, Immigration and Gender Violence.

Information, Advice and Specialized Intervention for foreign women who are victims ofgender violence on the juridical and psychological subjects.

Chats and workshops on legislation, rights and appeals about Equality and Gender Violence,immigrants’ and women’s associative movements.

Guided workshops for improving the self-esteem of the immigrant women.

Work sessions for improving in a positive way the intercultural coexistence directed to foreignwomen.

Workshops, chats, exhibitions and thematic activities about Gender Violence, gender andmigration, women’s rights in the education environment.

Loan and equipment of the thematic exhibitions about Gender Violence, Women and



The new measures aim to improve the possibilities of foreignwomen, who are victims of gender violence, to exercise theirconstitutional right to effective judicial protection; thesemeasures are summarized in the following points:

• When the woman denunciate the assailant, it is possible to apply fora residence and work permit on the grounds of exceptionalcircumstances for herself and for her children older then 16 years.

Also the mistreated woman can apply for a residence permit forincapable or minor children.

• It provides the automatic granting of a temporary residence and workpermit to the mistreated woman and her children, which temporarilyresolved her situation until the court decision related with thedenunciation of gender violence.

• As well, the administrative file for application of a penalty on the basisof the breach of article 53.1.a) will not be initiate, and theadministrative file for application of a penalty will be suspended,because of prior to denunciation.

• Finally, not only the criminal proceedings concluding with a sentenceis a favorable sentence for the victim, but also the cases when theconclusion of the criminal proceedings infers the situation of genderviolence, the cause files owing to missing of the defendant orprovisional suspension because of the expulsion of the denunciation.

(Organic Law 10 dated July 27 th , 2011,Amendments to the Articles 31 bis and 59 bis, ofOrganic Law 4 dated January 11 th , 2000, on therights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and theirsocial integration. BOE July 28th, 2011).

Amendment to the Article 31 bis, of Organic Law 4 dated

January 11th , 2000, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners in

Spain and their social integration.

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R RR R IGOBERTA MENCHÚ TUM, an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Maya-K'iche' ethnic group, was born on 9th January in 1959, in Laj Chimel, municipality SanMiguel of Uspatan. For her efforts on behalf of indigenous peoples worldwide, she was

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and she was the youngest person ever toreceive this honor.

Her parents were very respected in theirneighborhood. Her father, Vicente MenchúPerez was the community leader and foughtfor the indigenous rights in the country. Hermother, Juana Tum K ´otoja ´ was midwifeand healer. Since her childhood, she learnedto respect and love the nature, the sacredplaces and the collective life of the indigenouscommunities.

At a young age, she knew the injustices, thediscrimination, the racism and the exploitationof thousands poor aborigines in Guatemala.The misery forced her to look for support inthe capital of the country, to help her parentsand brothers. But it was in the indigenouscommunities, where she learned to defendherself and to be organized.

In the struggle for the land, on 9th September1979, she lost her first brother Patrocinio, whowas captured and then tortured by the armedforces. Although, nobody knows the place of his mortal remains. Four months later, on31st January 1980, died her father with the other 36 persons during the Burning of theSpanish Embassy.

Rigoberta’s mother was kidnapped on 19th April 1980, even though there are differentversions about her assassinate, nobody knows the place of her mortal remains, too.Her brother Victor was killed by the armed forces on 8th March 1983.

In 1981, Rigoberta Menchú escaped to Mexico, where she continued her tireless workreporting on genocide against the Mayan people of Guatemala. Also she began astruggle in the international community in favor of recognition the indigenous’ rightsaround the world.

She was recognized for her diligent efforts for justice acting through her Foundation.Her task is to achieve justice for the victims of genocide in Guatemala and also todefend the victims of discrimination and racism.



The Ulysses Syndrome

Due to inequalities of the world in which we live,many people look for the better future, try to crossthe borders and come to other countries. JosebaAchotegui, psychiatrist, titular professor of theUniversity of Barcelona, director of SAPPIR(Psychopathological and psychosocial SupportService for Immigrants and refugees in theHospital of Sant Pere Claver in Barcelona)identified a syndrome with chronic and multiplestress, an illness of illegal immigrants called “The

Ulysses syndrome.”

The Ulysses syndrome is a problem of XXI century, characterized by:

•Firstly, loneliness and enforced separation from one’s loved ones, especially inthe case when an immigrant leaves behind his or her spouse or young children.

•Secondly, the sense of despair and failure that is felt when the immigrant can notmake progress in the market and can not obtain a job.

•Thirdly, in addition to these difficulties, the immigrant has to fight merely tosurvive: to feed himself, to find a roof to sleep under.

•Fourthly, the fear. For example, the affections caused by the physical dangers ofsailing on the boat. Later, these immigrants are afraid of water.

During the 15th World Congress of Psychiatry, which was held from 18th to 22nd September 2011 in Buenos Aires, Achotegui exposed that among 15% and 20% of thepersons who visit the centers of mental health in Spain, are not ill, but they suffer fromthe “Ulysses syndrome”, that must not be confused with depression or any form ofmental illness. The worse conditions of work, the new laws complicating the regroupingof family and the impediments hindering the illegal immigrants to have a normal life,make the “Ulysses syndrome” very actual. The keys of the intervention must be centeredin the search of the proportional form of emotional, psycho-educational supports and juridical consultancy. The most important is do not treat these persons as being

depressive or ill.



“It doesn’t matter where I am from. It matters who I am”

First meeting “Rigoberta Menchú”

In the framework of the Project Rigoberta Menchúwe have to create a Network of Insular Coordination

between the all public and private entities, working withforeign women who are victims of gender violence. Theaim of the said Network of Coordination is theimprovement of the existing protocols on the subject of gender violencetowards foreign women.

For this purpose we have planned the Meeting on 13th December inthe Multifunctional Center TRANVIA. The aims of the meeting are follows:to share opinions, to detect needs with the aforementioned collective and to

found bases in order to create the said protocol.For more information:685 880 294 [email protected]

“Flowers From Another World”Director: Icíar Bollaín

Screenplay: Icíar Bollaín y Julio LlamazaresPhoto: Teo DelgadoMusic: Pascal GaigneProduced by: Santiago García de Leániz, Enrique GonzálezMacho (La Iguana - Alta Films S.A.); Spain, 1999.Starring: José Sancho (Carmelo), Lisette Mejía (Patricia), LuisTosar (Damián), Marilin Torres (Milady), Chete Lera (Alfonso),Elena Irureta (Marirrosi), Amparo Valle (madre), Rubén (Óscar)Running time: 105 min

Synopsis:

This film was inspired by the famous Plan caravan. After broadcasting by TV William A.Wellman’s film ‘’Westward the women’’ the village’s lonely male inhabitants decided to organize a bigbachelors’ party to which all the single women of the neighborhood are invited.Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegalstatus in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel all around theworld. Marirrosi from Bilbao, has a job, a home and the most complete solitude just like Alfonso, Damianand Carmelo, men from Santa Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors’party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of male/femalerelationships and traditional stereotypes.

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