REVISTA TRACE 57: Junio 2010
In this article, the author reflects on the contradictory process that she has witnessed over the last decade in Mexico: on one hand there is a successful foreign policy on human rights at the international level, in which several international instruments have been ratified against of discrimination and violence against women, yet in parallel, an internal policy in which state violence is justified in the name of “social peace” and is used against female activists and members of social movements.