CONFÉDÉRATION PARLEMENTAIRE DES AMÉRIQUES (COPA)

President

DIVA HADAMIRA GASLETUM BAJO

Deputy Gastélum obtained a law degree from Occidente University ’s Guasave Campus in her home state of Sinaloa. She has a Master’s degree in family law and diplomas in parliamentary law, public policy and women’s rights, public administration, penal law and family law, and has been a speaker at countless national and international discussion groups and seminars.

Since 1978, Gastélum has been affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), where she has been a senior administrator of the women’s branch at both the municipal and provincial levels, as well as a municipal, provincial and national political advisor. While on the Provincial Council of the party, she was the instigator of the reform for political recognition and gender equality in politics in the State of Sinaloa .

Gastélum was a local deputy in the 56th Legislature of the Congress of the State of Sinaloa . During that time, she chaired the Committee on Gender Equality and the Family, was Chair of the Board of the Congress, and clerk of both the Committee on Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups and the Oversight Committee. She distinguished herself as sponsor of the Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Family Violence (the first of its kind in Mexico ) and the Law to Protect the Rights of Girls, Boys and Adolescents.

While federal deputy in the 59th Legislature, Gastélum chaired the Gender Equality Committee. She distinguished herself as co-sponsor of the General Law on the Access of Women to a Life Free From Violence.

Founder of the Centre for Studies on the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality, Gastélum has influenced the most significant gender-responsive budgets in the history of Mexico .

As local deputy in the 59th Legislature of the Congress of the State of Sinaloa , she was Chair of the Human Rights Committee and clerk of the Committee on Gender Equality. During that time, she worked on the constitutionalization of human rights and helped prepare the State of Sinaloa ’s first gender-specific budget.

Gastélum is currently a federal deputy in the 61st Legislature (2009-2012). As such, she presides over the Special Committee on Families, is clerk of the Human Rights Committee and is a member of both the Committee on Gender Equality and the Committee on the Centre for Studies on the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality.