Maria Magdala

Maria Magdala

Gender and Human Rights Approach to Migrant Smuggling.
We uphold the Human Rights of Women , Girls , Boys , Men migrants

Leadership

The Pancha Carrasco Women Network from Costa Rica, uniformed women in leadership positions inspiring positive change in Law enforcement, preventing migrant smuggling crime & gender based violence

Sisterhood

Officer Wendily Gómez from Dominican Republic National Police and Officer Maria Biela from the Spanish National Police, both gender advocates. They thrive on sisterhood and the spirit of teambuilding.

Equality

The Italian Police task force integrated in an Europol International Mission holding high standards of diversity and equality in the deployment of Law Enforcement officers

Access to Justice

Maria Biela, migrant smuggling advisor and Spanish Police officer, visited the humanitarian crisis at the Nicaraguan-Honduras border. She identified women migrants in distress and in need of access to justice

Human Rights

Mexican Human Rights Organizations advocate for Police Reform, to strengthen the rule of law, protect women rights and improve security policies for migrants who are vulnerable and threatened by criminal groups

Imagine fleeing because you or your daughter are at risk of being kidnapped, traumatized from gender-based violence, forced to marry a militant fighter or trafficked into sexual slavery.

And the only way to escape that situation is by having to pay a migrant smuggler.

These are the profiles of women that police officers must identify at the border and distinguish throughout international investigations and operations. Otherwise, we are perpetrating inequality in the access to justice and gender violence against migrant women and refugees.

Displaced or migrant women are still voiceless victims or treated as objects of crime, instead of subjects with rights.

Women in law enforcement

How can we help?

Despite the social, law enforcement and policy advancements on Migrant Smuggling, Aggravated Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking Human Beings, the lack of safe and regular migration pathways and restrictive migration laws can increase the risk of disappearances, gender-based and sexual violence, and exploitation of migrant women. A human rights and gender mainstreaming approach to crime enables international agencies, justice and law enforcement operators, and states to better protect migrant women and girls from discrimination, abuse, and gender-based violence at all stages of migration, and to enforce their human rights.

Methodology

COUNTRY ASSESSMENT

SUPPORT POLICY & PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT ON PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION

RESEARCH

CAPACITY BUILDING

Technical Advice

Gender Mainstreaming & Human Rights

MIGRANT SMUGGLING

AGGRAVATED MIGRANT SMUGGLING

TRAFFICKING HUMAN BEINGS

Contact

Gender based Violence

Gender based Violence is very often at the core of organized crime activities and war settings, and they are against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda of UN Resolution 1325 (2000).

Justice systems, from policing to prosecution, the judiciary and the international cooperation settings are often gender neutral to crime therefore these crimes are usually under reported, and victims are forgotten in the data bases and police reports.
Women and girl migrants often face a heightened risk of violence in origin, transit and destination countries. The integrated border management system according to policies can consider them objects of crime instead of subjects of rights.

 

  • There continues to be a significant lack of gender disaggregated data gathered from police international operations or in national and regional law enforcement statistics
  • Violence against women migrants is not well captured by traditional data sources
  • There is a striking scarcity of data capturing the exploitation, abuse and violence faced by women migrants, in particular in low-skilled sectors
  • There is no real access to justice for all and failing accountability of policing and criminal justice systems
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