To prevent, avoid, report, follow up on, and penalize cases of workplace and sexual harassment in the municipalities of Mexico City, Movimiento Ciudadano in the capital and the Advisory Council Thinking about Mexico have promoted a protocol of action aimed at eradicating violence within these public entities.
The leader of MC, Alejandro Piña, along with the Orange Bench and the former candidate for the head of government, Salomón Chertorivski, stated that the instrument aims to generate a guide to prevent cases of abuse or sexual behaviors against working individuals, which will be adapted according to the organic law in the instances of each municipality. He pointed out that half of the employees working in the municipalities are women, so this protocol can be a support to assist those who have been victims, but also to reduce and prevent more cases.
"It is about providing a support instrument to women, but also to men and non-binary individuals who may be victims, which will be adapted to the administrative particularities of each municipality and its control bodies," stated Alejandro Piña.
76% of women in the city have suffered at least one case of physical or sexual violence; therefore, Movimiento Ciudadano in CDMX presented the Protocol to Prevent and Eradicate Violence and Harassment against women within the local public administration, in the municipalities.
Sofía Margarita Provencio added that the aim is to protect individuals with issues of gender violence and sexual harassment, through a committee that each municipality will establish for this purpose to assess cases, follow-ups, and penalties.
"It is not about all cases reaching the Public Ministry, but rather about having administrative measures according to the control bodies that they have in the municipalities and penalties that the committees deem necessary," mentioned Sofía Margarita Provencio.
This protocol also includes among its points the projection of a registry of individuals who have been reported or pointed out for harassment behaviors, as the same measures cannot be applied to a person who has committed the act for the first time as to repeat offenders.
