The archival cooperation programme Iberarchivos today joins the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is commemorated annually on 25 November, to denounce violence against women around the world and call for policies in all countries to eradicate it.
Iberarchivos wants to highlight the important role of all women in the world, which is why the programme has a line of action that aims to make the role of women visible and contribute to eradicating any type of violence against them.
Today at Iberarchivos we want to recognise and honour all women. We leave you here one of the most representative projects on this subject and we invite you to continue working on archival projects that eradicate and make this social phenomenon visible.
2007/133 Archive of Feminicidal Violence: for the human rights of girls and women in Mexico (1st phase): The Archive of Feminicidal Violence contains copies of official documentation, books, magazines, journalistic follow-up, records, films and others on the situation of feminicidal violence in the Mexican Republic. The archive is unique in the country and in Latin America. It is the result of the investigations carried out by the Special Commission to Know and Follow-up Feminicides in the Mexican Republic and the Related Procuration of Justice of the LIX Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies, chaired by Deputy Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos. The Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), through the Feminist Research Programme (PIF) of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Humanities (CEIICH), has custody of this Archive with the commitment to preserve it, increase it and maintain it as a living Archive for consultation by the entire university community of the country and Latin America, with a focus on generating research whose results have an impact on the design of public policies to eradicate violence against women in the country. This research is part of the FIP’s area of women’s human rights in Mexico.
With the support of Iberarchivos, the CEIICH managed to organise and conserve the materials contained in the Archive through the construction of a database. The materials were reviewed for subsequent cataloguing, a template was created for the construction of the database and finally documents were digitised for the database.