I PRESENTATION OF THE ORGANIZATION
ASSUME means: Association for solidarity and overcoming the woman special, being the Association one of many forms of organization that exists and why it was chosen at any given time.
Is organized by one General Assembly and Board of Directors, General Coordinator, Advisory Group.
A. OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION:
General objective:
1 Contribute to building a culture of peace by helping to eradicate violence against women in Guatemala.
Specific objectives:
1. Continue to run a programme of prevention of abuse and assistance to battered women in marginal urban areas and municipalities of Mixco and San Juan Sacatepéquez in the Department of Guatemala, with some groups of departments who request it.
2. Develop a systematic strengthening of the associated process.
3. Form multipliers of the processes of healthy relationships.
4. Build a network of women of ASSUME from the centres of solidarity organized in each of the communities where they work.
5. Contribute to the family economy, through organizational, technical and credit support, preferably for women in difficult situation of economic sustainability according to an established profile.
B. DESCRIPTION OF THE FUNCTIONING OF ASSUME
The Association by solidarity and overcoming of the special woman "ASSUME" is a non-governmental non-profit organization and has 35 associated, as well as men and women volunteers and volunteers.
Its organizational structure works in the following way:
General Assembly:
It meets once a year and extraordinarily when the situation so requires it.
Board of Directors:
Composed of 7 women with the following positions: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, three (3) members, to be elected at the ordinary. Meetings are held once a month and there is extraordinary when the situation requires it. The Board of Directors currently serves also as Executive direction by taking into account that we do not have financial support agencies or any organization.
General Coordinator:
Member of the association whose functions are designated by the General Assembly and sailing for the maintenance and preservation of resources.
Advisory Group:
Formed by three women with experience in working with women. It supports the entire organizational structure of ASSUME.
The decisions of major importance for the Organization are taken in the General Assembly who delegates to its Board of Directors for the execution of the activities. At the same time the Board of Directors delegates functions the General Coordinator.
By the nature of the work being done, there are groups of multipliers of workshops in all the communities where it has acted, or in poor areas of the capital and surrounding municipalities and colonies.
Our VISION
Our violence issue has been resolved and she is a contribution from our identity as women solidarity, in the different spaces of Guatemalan society, within the framework of a peaceful coexistence.
Our MISSION
Consolidating a culture of peace in Guatemalan society from awareness of women in the dignity of the human person, oriented to the search tools that contribute to eradicating domestic violence, with support and attention in integral health, training and ongoing training for strengthening personal; guided by responsibility, authenticity, inclusion, solidarity and a positive attitude emanating from deep within your being as a woman.
Role of the Association
Develop educational processes of awareness, facilitation, support and organization towards the integral health of women.
PRINCIPLES AND VALUES
a. Feel good with me same: having adequate self-esteem.
b. Have a space where they can speak and be heard in my ideas of woman.
c. Respect for diversity: environment, youth, elderly, ideologies, sexual persuasions, different cultures, gender
d. Integrity: a thorough person at all.
e. Love: feeling more complete and profound delivery.
f. Discretion: I respect what is entrusted.
g. Equity: each / or get what you need, in justice and love.
h. Honesty: be sincere and speak with the truth.
i. Equality: No person is more than anyone else in rights and obligations.
j. Confidentiality: Attitudes of discretion before stories of intimacy of others and are not reported or used for selfish purposes. In our case is part of gender solidarity.
C. MOTIVATIONS:
The assaults between cohabiting and, especially physical and psychological violence against women and children by the man, is still one of the most disgusting manifestations of machismo, of the patriarchal traits present in Guatemalan society.
From there, taking into account the personal experience of those associated with the situation of abuse and injustice that many women both in urban and rural areas live, we feel the responsibility to work of support and assistance to raped women, so, have women available to our program relationships healthywhich causes a beneficial effect on their lives, and therefore there is a demand for workshops of healthy relationships.
Methodology psychodynamic used in the workshops of healthy relationships, as well as training/formations based on the experiential situation of women and not only theoretical content. It provides women sustainable tools that enable the auto discovery of abuse themselves and the development of their self-esteem with the creation of affective spaces and which are integrators of their personality in their daily work. All of this contributes to the construction of a society of peace and non-violence.
D. METHODOLOGY TO BE USED IN THE WORKSHOPS OF HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
Methodology psychodynamic used in the workshops of healthy relationships, as well as training/formations based on the experiential situation of women and not only theoretical content. It provides women sustainable tools that enable the auto discovery of abuse themselves and the development of their self-esteem with the creation of affective spaces and which are integrators of their personality in their daily work. All this contributes to the construction of a society of peace and non-violence.
The important thing is that women express themselves and feel that others take into account his word. The process aims to promote the self-esteem of women and they auto discover, from the experiential, abuse in its different variants.
This course workshop lasts seven weeks. Prior to beginning the first workshop an introduction is given to the institution and the potential participants aware of the content of the workshops and the commitment that they require.
At the end of the workshops of healthy relationships, provided workshops on the rights of women.
CONTENTS OF THE WORKSHOPS
The themes to be developed are:
1-Values: Aims to answer the questions as I do to aspects of life they give them more importance?; do importance I give my values on others?; what are those values?
2.-Self-esteem: Aims to answer the questions I am able to do the things that I know to do?; how do I see myself?; what aspects contributed to me see diminished or valued?
3-Understanding the anger: Aims to answer questions and get angry easily?; What I feel when I angry?; Why yes or not accept my anger?; Do have the reactions to the anger of others?
4.-Communication, speak and listen: Means to answer the questions how am I communicating with other people?; do I prefer to just listen?; do you?; I prefer just to talk?; why?
5-Estereotipos-Prejuicios - discrimination: Contains the following questions have ever heard that it says about Indians?; have ever heard that it says about women?; what has heard that it is said of men?
6-Authority and firmness: assumed to find the answers to the questions what features does a person "Aguada"?; what is an aggressive person and what a strong person?; how respond I faced circumstances that demand something of me?; why?
7-Equality and equity: What differences are there between being egalitarian and equitable?; how it can be both equal and different?; what we differ in gender and what are equal?
II. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
A DATA OF THE LOCAL COUNTERPART
Name: Association for solidarity and overcoming the special woman "ASSUME"
Address: 4ª avenida "a" 0-97 Cologne Hamburg. Zone 8
City: Guatemala
Phone: 2472-4578 and 5213-4772
Email:
Legal representative
Name: Lesbia Victoria Reina Sánchez
office: President
Address: 2nd. Avenue, 6-62 Cologne Lomas de San Jacinto, area 10 of Mixco, Guatemala
Phone: 52021698
Email:
Person responsible for the project
Name: Francisca Parra Solana
office: General Coordinator
Address: 2nd Avenue 5-13 zone 8 of Mixco, Col. Panorama City San Cristobal
Phone: 2478 - 1449
Email:
Date of incorporation
N ° Legal registration: Book 50 Folio 199 199 minutes, November 17, 2003.
Civil Registry of the capital of Guatemala
B. DESIGN OF INTERVENTION OF THE PROJECT
B.1 context and background
In Guatemala, with 14 million inhabitants, slightly more than half women, violence against women has a chilling balance. For these abuses, in 2010, came to 46,000 complaints to the judiciary, maximum organ of the judiciary in the country. But thousands of these victims have failed to survive the barbarity. In the decade 2000-2010 more than 5,200 women were murdered as part of the gender violence, most riddled with bullets, police said.
The National Center for analysis and legal documentation of the Judicial organism (OJ) reported that in 2008, year of issue of the law, 30 cases of femicide and 4 thousand met 686 of violence against women (VCM).
In 2009 95 cases of femicide and 15 thousand met 656 of violence against women.
In the first quarter of 2010 has had 21 cases of femicide and 3,000 266 VCM.
On the other hand, violence within the family is an aggression to their inner peace and, therefore, a social problem of the first magnitude, but not called the attention of the authorities of the State and those which deliver justice.
Many aspects of legal vulnerability, such as occupational segregation, education and policy, especially in relation to decision-making in different areas, including, home, is here underscored the issue of domestic violence, assaults between cohabiting and, especially violence against women.
In 2008, the National Institute of public defence, the judicial branch, attended 22,737 women suffered some type of aggression by men, mostly their partners or family members and only 1.8 per cent of those cases was categorized as criminal conduct by the courts.
The beneficiaries of urban underserved communities in a precarious situation in different aspects:
The lack of legal protection is not only a weakness of the legal system but the expression of a serious social problem, that persist in the bosom of the family many cultural traits which estimated "normal" violence, legitimize and perpetuate the use of against women.
The basis of violence against women in different spheres of Guatemalan society has roots in the hierarchy established for the sexes, relations of power where the women are in an inferior position. The patriarchal system deepens in human relationships, and becomes mainly a man acting subject of violence against women and children/nas.
According to the analysis of different social Guatemalan organizations, refer to gender-based violence, it is referring to the levels of tolerance that exists in our justice systems, with regard to the human rights violations that happen to women. In such a way, that high levels of domestic violence, rape, sexual exploitation and trafficking in persons, harassment, abuse, incest, domestic violence, death threats, disappearances or abductions of women, what joins are judicial practices that fail to process cases, laws and codes that do not typify crimes or sanction; justice operators who ignore international conventions on women's rights, legal systems that condemn the victims and not perpetrators.
It was detected in a study conducted in 15 municipalities of Guatemala regarding women's access to justice, women come in a 68% by domestic violence.
Guatemala was one of the first countries to ratify the Inter-American Convention to prevent, sanction and eradicate violence against women, Belém do Pará-(1995). As a result, the effort of the women's movement was the establishment of the law against domestic violence, the regulation that the organizes and the Coordinating Committee for the prevention of domestic violence (CONAPREVI). All this, however, lacks a coherent legal framework, which makes the discretion of operators of Justice which deprived in the treatment of cases of violence against women.
Domestic violence in Guatemala is a crime: according to article 7. the law against femicide and other forms of violence against women, establishes the crime of violence against women is committed when exercise of physical, sexual or psychological violence against a woman in the public or private sphere.
"The absence of investigations and convictions in cases of murders of women and girls in Guatemala transmits the message that in this country, violence against women is acceptable. "Guatemalan authorities should change this perception by ensuring that the murders are investigated and makes justice, so that the promises that he has made to prevent violence against women have any real value", said Amnesty International in a new report into the killings of women and girls in Guatemala.
According to the authorities of Guatemala, are murdered women and girls, in exceptionally brutal circumstances. There are data indicating that sexual, and in particular violence rape, is a strong component that characterizes many of the killings, but often this is not reflected in the official records. In several cases mutilation and disfigurement that the bodies had been subjected recalled the killings being committed during the internal armed conflict.
"The true extent of the killings of women in Guatemala remains unknown, which highlights the scant attention provided by the Guatemalan authorities to this matter. Often the rape and other crimes of sexual violence are almost invisible due to the absence of reliable figures about statistical data and the circumstances of the killings of women,"Amnesty International said.
Most of the murders are committed in urban areas who in recent years have also experienced a dramatic increase in violent crime, linked many times to organized crime or the activities of street youth gangs known as "maras".
Amnesty International report that, in the center of the human rights crisis that face women in the country, is discrimination, that characterizes even the response of the authorities.
Some officials qualified victims of members of bands or prostitutes, which reflects a great discrimination against them and their families. These attitudes often influence the way are investigated and documented cases, and even the decision if investigated or documented.
According to information of the newspaper Prensa Libre de Guatemala dated May 13, 2011, "the organisation Amnesty International denounced London widespread violence against women in Guatemala and the lack of protection for indigenous peoples and warned that they remain unresolved human rights violations committed during the Guatemalan internal armed conflict, which lasted more than three decades.