FEMU Triennial Report 2007 - 2010

Mexican Federation of University Women, A. C.

Over the past three years the Mexican Federation of University Women has remained strongly active in its commitment to the development and improvement of the status of the university and Mexican women. As proof of the foregoing the most important projects we have done during these three years are described below:

A HISTORIC PROJECT IN MEXICO: THE CREATION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN

In April 2008 the Mexican Federation of University Women (FEMU) proposed to the executive of the Mexican state, which through the National Institute of Fine Arts was established Leona Vicario Cultural Centre for Human Rights of Women in the historic building that was assigned by the Mexican State of Independence Heroin Doña Leona Vicario Fernandez de San Salvador. The main objective of this proposal is to spread conocimeinto history to better understand our present and its challenges without exclusiveness of gender and participation-oriented and selfless heroism of women. By July 2008 the proposal of the executive to the creation of Leona Vicario Cultural Center was faced with the Mexican federal government's refusal to carry out the project. So the Federation of University Women started from this month to collect signatures in order to submit to the appropriate authorities as a class, not only the Federation but to the public at large. The signature can be done through electronic means, access to the page www.femumex.org. The exhibition "The Struggle of Women in Mexico" project is part of the National Museum of Women Leona Vicario that promotes the Mexican Federation of University Women for the history of women in Mexico is no longer a forgotten history, is a synthesis of Mexico's history through photo murals, sculptures, texts and music playback. The museum also of the permanent exhibition and temporary exposisciones organizes workshops, courses, seminars, symposia and round tables, presentations and concerts, theater, dance and film. The exhibition has been traveling the country allows for a historical and understand the role played by women in national life and thus promote tolerance and respect for the rights of women who have been active in Mexico's

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SEMINARS

At 15 and November 16, 2007 was held in Acapulco, Guerrero, the "National Seminar XVIII: The Women's Reproductive Rights in Mexico." He explained that the workshop brought together experts and experts as the President of the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City, Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria, who delivered a lecture on "Women's Reproductive Rights as Human Rights." Were present for the Legal Adviser and Legal Services of the Federal District Government Alfonso Leticia Bonifaz, and researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Olga Islas, among others.

The National Seminar XIX. "Meeting of Feminism" was held on 6 and November 7, 2008 in the city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa at the Holiday Inn. There were all those interested in the issue and submitted their application for registration FEMU. Key topics are addressed: 1.Feminism: historical origins 2. Evolution of feminism 3. Liberal Feminism 4. Socialist Feminism 5. Ecofeminism 6. Feminism and gender 7. Feminism and Human Rights 8. Respect for otherness Circuit northwest of the University Olímpic Stadium, Coyoacán, México, D. F. Tel: (01 55) 5622-2637/38 e-mail: [email protected] Sitio web: www.femu.org.mx Mexican Federation of University Women, A. C.

XXX National Seminar on "Education, Empowerment and Development" was held from Monday 39 November to Tuesday, December 1, 2009 in the city of Saltillo in the Autonomous University of Coahuila. There were lectures by specialists, in order to make a historical, legal, political, economic and cultural about empowerment, education and development in our country. Were invited to the national community to submit their papers on the following agenda:

1.Women's Empowerment 2. Education for life 3. Continuing Education 4. Education gender 5. Development for what? 6. Development and environment 7. Sustainable Development

CONFERENCES

The Second Congress is clebró intenrnacional progress of women in the sciences, humanities and all disciplines, "which took place on 10, 11 and March 12, 2010 in Unit Iztapalapa Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. The aim of this conference was to disseminate the work of prominent women in the field of Basic Sciences, Engineering and Technology, evidencing their contributions in the educational, productive, economic and family. And a link to build academic networks.

PUBLICATIONS

• The monthly meeting in July 2008, FEMU announced that the play "Women's Reproductive Rights in Mexico" was completed so that had to be reprinted. This book presented the papers he held at the Seminar on Women's Reproductive Rights in Mexico ", held on 15 and November 16, 2007. This work carried out in the seminars are driven by the Federation as a document for posterity, and most importantly, as tools of knowledge about the situation of women in Mexico. • On March 8, 2010 was tabled in the state of Zacatecas the play "The History of Women in Mexico" coordinated by Dr. Patricia Galeana, Founding President of the Federation. This book recounts the conditions that women have lived since the colonial period to the present and how they have developed their social rights to equity, through their demands. This compilation is a sample of the research work of the FEMU.

EDUCATION

Within the area of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, National Autonomous University of Mexico, she opened a new specialty on Gender Studies while graduates were provided with the same issues in the states of Zacatecas and Yucatán.

DISSEMINATION

Radio program "Women on the Platform" The Mexican Federation of University also conducts outreach hard work on the problems and issues related to women through the issuance of the radio program "Women on the Platform" which airs on 660 AM Radio Ciudadana XEDTL every Friday 12:00 to 1:00 p. m. radio group in the IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio). The following is a brief list of the topics discussed during the last three years: 1. The role of women in politics today 2. Women, agent of change for the Humanism and Peace 3. Violence against women 4. Law of shared parenting 5. Euthanasia and the New anti-smoking law 6. Differences between male and female brain 7. Hearings on the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on the constitutionality of abortion

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