The Mexican National Network of Refuges

The Mexican National Network of Refuges.

What is the National Network of Refuges?

The Network is a NGO initiated in 1999 with the aim of bringing together mexican refuges offering security, protection and specialized care for women and their children who live at risk of gender-based violence as well as victims of trafficking.

What is the National Network of Refuges?

It joins all private and public refuges in Mexico. There are 74 refuges throughout the National territory which give protection to more than 3,200 women and children at the same moment.

In 2008 we protected 15,000 people.

A safe and secret place where women and their children go when they are at risk.

A refuge designs a specialized intervention for each family according to their needs and respecting women decisions.

Measure the level of physical and emotional damages.

Provide attention required immediately avoid a bigger crime, homicide, suicide or disability caused by gender based abuse.

WHAT IS A REFUGE IN MEXICO?

Provide counselling, legal advice, and access to justice.Increase awareness in women’s rights under a gender equity perspective.Interrupt and break the domestic abuse cycle.

Give attention to children victims or witnesses of abuse.

Contribute to create better public policies to provide more and better services for victims of GBV.

WHAT IS A REFUGE IN MEXICO?

Crisis interventionSafety place and accommodation (three months average).Psychological and legal adviceConcealingTraining in different subjects to find a job.Empowerment and self steam workshops. Health and infirmary servicesReferrals to refuges in other cities.Meals and clean clothesGames and special activities for abused children and witnesses.

SERVICES PROVIDED BY REFUGES IN MEXICO

ÍNDICE TOTAL DE OCUPACIÓN ANUALMUJERES

35%

NIÑOS33%

NIÑAS32%

70% of people protected in refuges are children

OCUPATION RATES IN MEXICAN SHELTERS

women

boysgirls

www.rednacionalderefugios.org.mx

SERVICES PROVIDED BY SHELTERS

TOTAL DE SERVICIOS PRESTADOS

26%

9%

20%

45%

Atención Psicológica

Atención Legal

Atención y Gestiónde Trabajo Social

Atención de Médica

AREAS OF PROVISION SERVICES IN NNR MODEL

Counseling Medical

Social services

Legal-justiceservices

To strength and support the work of every refuge in Mexico.

To promote quality standards in services provided by refuges.

To contribute to reduce the consequences of GBV in women and their children.

To promote public policies with equity and gender perspective.

To reduce domestic abuse rates and homicides.

GOALS OF THE NATIONAL NETWORK

We have developed the National Model to Provide Attention, Protection and Support to women and children victims GBV.

We have multi-agency model for referrals and protocols among the refuges and public institutions for cases which faceextreme risk to erase any trace of persecute families. We set up National Meetings with lectures, seminars and workshops to up date our skills and knowledge.

We usually share experiences and systematize our best practices.

HOW DOES THE NETWORK WORK?

National Chair Executive Director

Five cordinators: two in the Noth of the country, two in the center and one in the south.

We have one national assambly every year and annual work programme

We have a National phone number 01800 822 44 60 for referrals

STRUCTURE OF THE NNR

45

27Governmental

shelters

35

To develop a Model for provision services to children in refuges

To develop National quality standards for provision services in all the refuges

To conclude the National System Indicators of Refuges in a data base

3rd Interamerican Meeting of refuges in November 2011

MAIN CURRENT PROJECTS

WHO DO WE WORK WITH?

NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

•Ministry of Health

•National Institute of Women

• Foreing Affairs Ministry

• Ministry of Interior

• National Institute of Social Development

• Ministy Public Security

• General Attorney Office

• Congress and Senate

• Local governors and mayors

WHO DO WE WORK WITH ABROAD?

INTERNATIONAL

• UN DPI/NGO UNPFA

• UNIFEM AI England

• PAHO MSI US

• IOM ACWS Canada

• US EMBASSY WA England

• NNEDV US WAVE Europe

• NCEDSV US

• Mujeres separadas y divorciadas Spain

• Shelters in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Peru.


1st INTER AMERICAN MEETING OF SHELTERS

September 2006: There were delegates from 10 countries from the American Continent and the UK.

OUTCOMES

• It was a unic opportunity that for the fist time allow shelters from the Continent to cher their experiences, best practices and models of provision services.

•Everyone could get a wider view of what is going on in GBV in other countries, laws, support to NGO´s and public policies.

1 st INTER AMERICAN MEETING:


1ST INTER AMERICAN MEETING OF SHELTERS

September 2006: There were delegates from 10 countries from the American Continent and the UK.

OUTCOMES

• It was a unic opportunity that for the fist time allow shelters from the Continent to cher their experiences, best practices and models of provision services.

•Everyone could get a wider view of what is going on in GBV in other countries, laws, support to NGO´s and public policies.

1 st INTER AMERICAN MEETING:



OUTCOMES

• Exchange of details to be in contact for referrals.

• Commitment to endorse better public policies for shelters in each country.

•The begining of an informal Network for chering experiences, work together and referrals.

• Canada ACWS propuse to launch the next Inter American Meeting in 2008 that finally became Global Meeting instead.

1st INTER AMERICAN MEETING:



An Inter-American Shelter´s Statement from delegates of 10 Countries:

1) Establish mechanism for compliance with international agreements on human rights and women´s and children rights.

2) Implement post-refuge public policy for the restitution of victim´s rights.

3) Guarantee civil servants constant training.4) Harmonize or standardize local,

regional . . and national legislation according to . . . . international agreements.




Work together in the protection and support of women at risk for GBV

Report morbidity and mortality in cases of violence

Exercise intenational cooperation for the coordination of the protection, support and attention of women and for the prevention of violence against them, prioritizing three aspects: referral and counter-referral of cases; acces to services and resources; systematization of experiences.






























2nd INTER AMERICAN MEETING OF SHELTERS

Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th November 2009 in Mexico City.

With an innovative program focusing on the public policies and international cooperation to tackle GBV.

Through a series of keynote lectures, symposia, planarians.

2nd INTER AMERICAN MEETING:



GOALS:

To exchange models, good practices, experiences and successful public policies.

To create regional mechanisms for referrals and a strong networking of leaders’ of shelters in countries where the rule of law is lacked and public policies to tackle GBV are weak.

•To create better mechanisms to protect women and shelters´ leaders when organized crime and weapons trafficking have increased the risk they face everyday.

•To strengthen rule of law in our countries and civil society movement looking for better strategies with our governments.

•To consolidate the Inter-American Network of Shelters.



WORKING GROUP TO FOLLOW UP GOALS:

It is formed by representatives of 17 countries.

We lunched a Working Group Meeting in Guatemala in August 2010.

The 3rd Inter-American Meeting will take place in August in Antigua City, Guatemala.

We agreed to involve more organizations and ountries

We developed a protocol for international referrals for migrant women or extrangers.

We developed a communitation protocol for the Network

We built the Governance Model of the Network dividing the American continent in five regions.

Documents

The Mexican National Network of Refuges