As part of the preamble to the executive order issued by the governor Pedro Pierluisi In order to deal with the crisis of gender violence that plagues the country, it is stipulated that the current government administration requires the implementation of a teaching curriculum with a gender perspective, if the document does not go through the process to be fechas for those who hope to be part of the public education system.
While “we are compromising to establish a process to develop a gender perspective that will help combat the causes that contribute to inequality, discrimination and violence”, this is one of the points of the preamble to the executive order of Pierlu that includes 22 seconds dispositivas.
The curriculum with a gender perspective implemented in the Department of Education mediante carta omsendbrief bajo la administración de Alejandro García Padilla, but was eliminated by the Secretary of Education Julia Keleher.
The decree of the governor, who in the campaign promotes the declaration of emergence by the violence of gender, as for years he has advertised defensive organizations of the rights of women, mantuvo vigente Protocol of Action to Combat the Violence of the Women in Puerto Rico, which is the result of a “national alert” declared by the governor Wanda Vázquez Garced in September 2019.
Sondeverbod, the executive order of Pierluisi derogó la Multisectoral Commission Against Violence in Women (Comuvi), which Vázquez Garced created by decree in October 2020 to implement the Protocol of Action. Pierluisi, a su vez, sustituyó la Comuvi con Committee on Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education of the Violence of Gender (PARE), which undertakes among its responsibilities “to evaluate the Protocol of Action to Combat the Violence of the Women in Puerto Rico, incorporated by the Executive Order 2020-078, and to make recommendations to improve and accelerate its implementation”.
The document states that in 2019, of the 7,021 cases of domestic violence, 5,896, or 84%, were registered against women.
The PARE Committee, in turn, recommends a representative of 11 governmental entities, a representative of the “academy”, a member of the communication media, three representatives of its finite organizations and an “official of compliment”, appointed by the gobernador. The congratulatory office, as specified, will be filled by the committee’s administrative staff, which will be completed in due course.
The Order has at its disposal the integrants representing the media, the Academy and the non-governmental organizations will be selected by Pierluisi and the Secretariat of the Family, Carmen González Magaz, who will chair the PARE Committee. The governor reserves the right to add members to the committee, given the relevant intention.
An identifying fund
The decree, on the other hand, does not specify the parties that are required to guarantee its effective implementation, but only in the case of the individual agencies identifying the necessary. During the remainder of the tax year, the indebtedness of the provident fund of the presumed certificate, the reserve of emergence of the central government, federal parties or “any other fund available”, for which the agencies must work with the Office of Genocide and Presupuesto and the Financial Assessment Authority and Fiscal Agency.
For the fiscal year 2022 in adelante, order that each agency “identifies as part of its prosecution, a party to assign directed appeals to complete with the objectives of this Executive Order and / or prevention programs of violence.
The state of emergency will take effect on June 30, 2022, although the opening will take place at the request of the PARE Committee.
Among the agencies that need to identify funds to respond to the state of emergency are the Departments of Family, Justice, Education, Living, Health, Economic Development, Correction and Rehabilitation, the Institute of Forensic Science, the Institute of State and the City of Police the Office of the Procurator of Women. The 11 dependents are represented by a representative on the PARE Committee.