In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, after it was assumed from politics and society that
aggression against the female population constitutes an undeniable, unacceptable and unacceptable scourge, which must be stopped.
On this commemorative day, UNESCO has once again called for unity and action, because, it says, “women's rights are the human rights of all people”. And I believe that on this occasion, the organization has hit the nail on the head, by calling for a collective commitment to end these abominable acts.
Responding to gender violence challenges all of us, women and men, young people and adults, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, who transmit humanitarian values in homes, and schools, with the capacity to instill egalitarian convictions in students.
November 25 and its violet message also appeals to the responsibility of those who legislate, manage and lead public administrations, because in their hands lies the construction of a preventive and protective framework, which alerts and punishes, of pedagogy and progress.
I leave two questions for reflection. The first is that one in four women worldwide (27%) has been the victim of intimate partner violence by a man at some point in her life. These are data from a study by the World Health Organization (WHO) that reveal that, as a public health problem, gender violence is global. That does not understand geographies or social classes, or the fictitious order of the worlds. That infects and colonizes every last corner of the Earth.
And the second is that, according to the latest radiography on gender violence in Spain, the most prevalent form is psychological violence, since 27.8% of women confess to having been “humiliated or insulted, alone or in front of other people, by their partner or ex-partner”, having been accused of infidelity, having been prohibited from seeing their friends or dedicating themselves to some hobby or task outside the home, having been intimidated or threatened.
Let's not forget: that is also violence, it also strangles lives. In this scenario of terror for so many women, let us show our rejection, join the demands for equality and be aware of our capacity to claim and obtain a fairer and more egalitarian society.
Lucía Olga Tejera. Deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group for Lanzarote
