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Officials inaugurate state’s third Women’s Justice Centre

Othón P. Blanco, Q.R. — Governor Mara Lezama and Attorney General Raciel López Salazar inaugurate the Othón P. Blanco Women’s Justice Centre. The Centre was inaugurated Friday in Chetumal and will serve women from Chetumal, Bacalar, Felipe Carrillo Puerto and José María Morelos

“Women are the pillar on which many families are supported and it is true that they are also the ones who experience, due to their gender, the broadest forms of violence.

“That is why it is very clear to all authorities the commitment that we must fulfill with them in a comprehensive manner when they come to seek justice,” said Attorney General Raciel López Salazar during the Friday inauguration.

The services provided by this Centre include first contact care, legal advice and representation in family and criminal matters. It will also serve individual and group psychological therapy, psychological care for girls, boys and adolescents, social work care for case follow-up and referral to social programs and institutions as well as emergency shelter and primary medical care.

“The opening of this center is a very important event, Governor Mara Lezama said. It is the third in the state, after those of Benito Juárez and Solidaridad, in the Northern Zone. In this Centre, women from Chetumal, Bacalar, Felipe Carrillo Puerto and José María Morelos will be treated with dignity and respect.”

Minerva Citlalli Hernández Mora, Head of the Women’s Secretariat, and Sayda Yadira Blanco Morfín, Coordinator of Public Policies for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence at CONAVIM, among other personalities, attended the inauguration.

Governor Mara Lezama and Attorney General Raciel López Salazar both speak at the inaguration.

“We must remember how important it is to eradicate all forms of violence against girls, adolescents and women. Abuse hurts those who suffer it and debases those who commit it. Today we have a reason to celebrate with the launch of this Center,” said Raciel López.

In a statement, Lezama said that people who come to the Justice Center for Women will be assisted by professional and specially trained personnel from the Women’s Prosecutor’s Office, the Sexual Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, the Secretariat for Women of the State of Quintana Roo, the Secretariat for Citizen Security, the Public Defender’s Institute, the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims, the State DIF and the Secretariat of Health.

The Mayors of Othón P. Blanco, Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Bacalar, Yensunni Idalia Martínez Hernández, Mary Hernández Solís and José Alfredo Contreras Méndez, respectively, as well as representatives of the Judiciary and the 18th State Legislature, the business sector and government public servants, also attended the inauguration.