The Government of the Canary Islands has condemned this Monday the femicide of a woman on June 25, allegedly at the hands of her partner, in the municipality of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and has expressed condolences to the friends and family environment of the victim.
With the confirmation of this femicide as gender violence, the Canary Islands Institute of Equality (ICI) counts 111 women murdered by gender violence since 2003, when the Law against gender violence was approved in the Canary Islands.
After reading the manifesto at the acts of rejection held before the headquarters of the Government Presidency in both capitals, the Vice President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez, and the Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families, Candelaria Delgado, appealed to citizen collaboration and institutional unity to combat all gender-based violence. "Ending sexist murders, a structural problem, requires an exercise of awareness by the whole society in which we learn to value and dimension sexism, the only origin and reason why men are killing women because they understand that they are their property."
The minister stated that "many women live in an emergency situation in their own homes, live with their abuser, exposing their mental health, physical integrity, their lives, and sometimes also those of their own daughters and sons" and recalled the possibility that anyone can alert in the case that they suspect that a woman may be suffering violence by calling 112.
The minister explained that the Government of the Canary Islands, in agreement with all the councils, promotes a network of resources to inform, prevent and assist victims of gender violence that extends throughout the archipelago. "Also, -she added- through the co-education department we are acting in schools, from childhood, training in equality and against violence and promoting campaigns that facilitate this awareness, but it is clear that changing the mold of androcentrism installed in our culture for centuries is not a simple task."
