The woman’s right was rejected after bars

In prisons made by men and men, women live in the shade. Shades that not only hide their stories, but also essential: menstruation with dignity. “Every time a woman is deprived of her freedom, she is also deprived of her right to menstruation with dignity.” This is repeated, with a strong, sweet and white voice, women who survived a system that they do not recognize or respect them.

Betty: Blood, Carmin and Iman Lipstick

Betty Maldonado arrived at the Marias Islands Prison during Calderón’s Sexennium. There, among the unbearable heat of about 50 degrees, 500 other women, including Sandra Avila, the queen of the Pacific Ocean.

Without drinking water, I had to exhaustly with the yellow liquid sock that was stored in the sun’s Tinaco. Without hygiene products, break his shirts in Cachitos and take out the support sponge to improvise towels. Everything was worth when the body and the state bleed absent.

They wanted to remove my lipstick, but they were never able to do so. This was the only thing that made me feel life, as if this red blood that I no longer see that the flow could remember, at least, that I was alive. “

When this was a red card on its cheeks and lips, it was not makeup, it was resistance.

I had no color in my clothes, my face, or in my body. “At that time she was subjected to severe sliding, my home lost her teeth and was very high because of Planned pajamas boy“When he returned to Santa Martha after year, thanks to an Amarus fighter lawyer, for the first time, for a long time, life still has another color.” It was the best day of my life. “

Claudia, her friend and companion, has lost a victim of medical abandonment and cervical cancer that is misunderstood. Claudia was free in 2018, but she died in 2019. Thus, the Association of Women was born by Freedom.

Sweet: The time it does not come back

Dulce Obregón has been established 56 days. His crime: One of them said his name, because the victims cannot recognize it. Thus, he entered Santiagoo prison, in 2004. He left the clearance in 2024.

But he lost 20 years. What hurts him more was not the vision of his son. He entered when he was a five -year -old boy. He went out and found 25 men. “At that time I will not recover.

There are a lot of very displaced people. The family does not go because he does not want, but because he cannot always, due to long distances or poverty. ”

For her, when they had rooted for about two months, the only thing that the authorities provided during menstruation was the toilet paper.

And once in prison, how the monthly glasses could be functional for sweet, if the water that was in contact with it is yellowish, full of salt and even worms came out.

Water polluted, the monthly glasses do not work, and the generous menstruation is just a fantasy for the interior.

Blanca: Welcome to misery

Blanca Estela Guevara spent ten years in Santa Martha prison, located in CDMX. Upon his arrival, his clothes were removed and said: “Choose.” There was only a lot of dirty clothes in the epidemic room. Choose pants that were twice their size and tied with a needle.

The clothes were dirty, and a bad smell. But there was nothing else wearing. “

They were his companions, not the state, who gave him a healthy towel, soap, a boat with clean water. “Women at home are not present to anyone. No one turns them to see them. No one thinks they are menstruation too.”

Dignity with the expiration date

In 2020, during a health inspection in full blood, Hilda Tillez Lino – in defense of human rights for a period of three decades – and the CEO of the Business Council to reintegrate the meeting, and AC Cres, saw their own eyes: social abandonment, institutional abandonment, and a complete absence of resources for fake resources for women in prison.

“It is like living a double condemnation,” says Hilda.

The towel package can cost up to ten times more than abroad, documenting the recommendation 35/2021 of the National Human Rights Committee, CNDH. There is no budget element for that. Women use socks or fabrics or prolong the use of one towel for more than 48 hours. It is not neglected. It is a punishment.

On March 8, the campaign was launched #unaperiondenprise, promoted by Women United by Freedom and with the support of Lunam, to make this right denial. The goal is clear: that the state guarantees free and monthly access to menstruation products available in all prisons.

In December, thanks to the support of seeds and a menstrual products, they managed to distribute six thousand health towels and 11,000 paper in seven prisons centers in Mexico. It was a menstrual convoy, but it should not be an exception.

14200 women, basic right rights

Today, there are more than 14,000 women deprived of their freedom. The number has increased more than 33 % in only five years. There is no strong public policy that guarantees its monthly health. Recommendation 35/2021 of the National Human Rights Committee was the first 33 documentary for a period of two years that recognized the generous menstrual administration as a human right.

On average, women need 24 towels for each period. Hit it for 12 months. Then for 14 thousand women. Hilda Téllez Lino prepares the account: More than 4 million towels per year will be needed.

“Not all of them are fertile age,” says Hilda, but this number provides us with a clear dimension.

Silence is not neutral

Because menstruation does not stop because he is in prison. Just become more painful, quieter and more humane.

They do not seek luxuries. Only dignity. No one should bleed with garbage.

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CVA