A new November 25th is coming. And we are going for twenty, since the United Nations designated this date as "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women." We hope it will be the last, because we will once and for all end all forms of violence, physical or psychological, against our partners, friends, neighbors.
A scourge, sexist violence, which leaves chilling figures and data to increase our outrage.
According to the Government Delegation, since 2003, 1,074 women have been murdered and 41 so far in 2020, also resulting in 301 orphans since January 1, 2013 and 23 in this horribilis year. To which we must add 37 murders of minors since 2013, within the framework of gender violence, and three so far this year.
These are not numbers, they are lives taken, stories broken by a male terrorism that some, only some, dare to discuss, to question, and that are worsened by the very data collected by the Macro Survey of Violence against Women 2019¹. Conducted for the sixth time in Spain, its main objective is to know the percentage of women aged 16 or over, residing in Spain, who have suffered or are currently suffering some type of violence because they are women. And unfortunately it speaks for itself again:
Of the total number of women, 13.7% (2,802,914 women) have suffered sexual violence throughout their lives from any person (current partner, past partners or people with whom they have not had a relationship), and 1.8% (359,095 women) in the last 12 months. But the magnitude of the problem does not stop there, since 21.5% (4,387,480 women) have suffered physical violence throughout their lives by any person (current partner, past partners or people with whom they have not had a relationship), and 1.7% (351,770 women) in the last 12 months.
Therefore, it is time to continue the fight and give, once again, the utmost seriousness and concern to the gender violence suffered by our women. From the socialist municipal group in Teguise, formed by Jaqueline Medina, Jenifer Galán, Mari Nieves Duque, Rubén Cejudo, Jaime Guerra, Marcos Bergaz and Benito Ramón Rodríguez, we reaffirm our NO to violence against women.
Because each one, with her name, surnames and life project, counts.
Because we must banish from the new generations any trace of rancid machismo.
Because it is time to remember, as many times as necessary, that ending gender violence requires the unity of everyone.
Because we still have plenty of reasons this new November 25th.
By Jenifer Galán, Jaqueline Medina and Mari Nieves Duque, PSOE councilors in Teguise
