The Coordinating Body of Women's Organizations for Participation and Equality (COMPI) has issued its position regarding the general elections on July 23.
"We feminist women feel totally helpless regarding the electoral content for the upcoming elections. We are witnessing an unbearable increase in violence against us in all its possible manifestations, in a society that naturalizes it without any shame, while we face the denial of #GenderViolence by some political parties; which have already been installed in the different institutions of our country. Faced with the ineffectiveness and lack of forcefulness of the actions of the public authorities."
"We affirm that a democratic society must guarantee the life and safety of women, as a basic requirement for justice and equality between women and men, and therefore, first of all:
We denounce:
- The denial of gender violence by the extreme right, and now in connivance with the right, due to the electoral pacts between PP and Vox after the last regional and municipal elections.
- The elimination of Equality bodies where these Pacts have been reached, which intend to install in our country reactionary policies that bring us more machismo, more homophobia, more racism. And that also annuls everything achieved during these years in terms of Equality in society, thus witnessing a setback in obtained rights.
Without women there is no democracy. We are more than half of the population and therefore, it is mandatory to place real and effective equality between women and men at the core of the actions of the future government. We will not allow those who are against women's rights to take us back to the dark ages where we were considered little more than human.
Therefore, we demand from the parties their real commitment to the feminist agenda, which we present:
- We demand the fulfillment and expansion of the State Pact for the eradication of all violence against women with mandatory guidelines and with a budgetary allocation that allows the prevention, care and reparation of all victims,
- We demand transparency, publicity and oversight of the destination of the State Pact Funds. Especially taking into account women in greater situations of vulnerability such as undocumented migrant women, women with disabilities, older women who do not appear on any party's agenda.
- We demand the prevention and eradication of institutional violence practices in the judicial, police, social policy, immigration, etc. areas, practices that limit the scope of public policies against gender violence.
- We demand stable and quality employment, and the elimination of the wage gap between women and men in the labor market and in the pension system, to tackle the structural inequality that women suffer in society and in the labor market, with greater virulence in single-parent families, migrant women, or those who suffer severe poverty.
We consider the economic autonomy and independence of women essential, with decent employment being the best measure to guarantee said autonomy, which would also facilitate the exit from situations of gender violence, labor, sexual and reproductive exploitation, adding to the energy poverty of many single-parent households. We find that gender-based violence has been articulated with poverty, exclusion and many more expressions of multiple discriminations.
We claim economic independence as a transversal axis in women's rights.
- We demand universal public services with decent public employment, an essential measure in feminized sectors, with precarious employment and outsourced to private companies.
- We demand care and co-responsibility policies. We are committed to a public care system, designed from a feminist perspective, so that care ceases to be a burden for the development of women's lives in conditions of equality. That includes a regulation of equal and non-transferable permits in matters of care, which comprehensively promotes and facilitates the co-responsibility of men in these.
For a public system of Attention to Dependency that guarantees resources without waiting, at the moment the need arises.
For the extension of the public and free education system to the 0-3 year stage, with universal coverage
Criticism of the Trans Law
On the other hand, we are witnessing with extreme concern the elimination of the concept of “sex” replacing the reality of women with the same cultural construct that oppresses them: gender, in documents and laws on which public policies are based (such as the recently approved trans law, through the urgent procedure and without the appearance of experts).
We strongly reject any attempt to make sex invisible as an axis of oppression. We demand the need to maintain statistics disaggregated by sex as the only way to show social reality, to formulate public policies that advance equality between women and men.
We demand an education system based on co-education, which actively works to overcome sexist mandates and stereotypes, which includes affective sexual education and the prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.
Stop the penetration of transgender ideas in the education system.
Suppression of the affirmative model of health protocols to stop pubertal blockade, hormonization and mutilation of healthy girls, boys and adolescents.
- We demand the abolition of all forms of commodification of our bodies (prostitution, pornography, trafficking; egg donation and reproductive exploitation)
In relation to reproductive exploitation, we consider the situation that has been occurring in Spain unsustainable, with a law that does not allow the practice, but in which an instruction, of a lower regulatory rank, the Instruction of the General Directorate of Registries and Notaries is acting as a "colander", to maintain a business that promotes the exploitation of women and violates their rights and those of the creatures.
- We demand the repeal of the Instruction of October 5, 2010, on the registration regime of the filiation of those born through reproductive exploitation practices. We consider the articles introduced in the reform of the Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health and IVE very insufficient, which only partially reforms the advertising of agencies that operate in this business knowing its illegality.
For all the above, we call on the parties to commit to these points for Universal Justice.
We will demand from the next government that is elected, feminist policies that guarantee equality and a life free of violence for all women, it is time for us to start rethinking new pacts for the care of life and at the same time, to shore up the comprehensive framework of Human Rights."