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The sexual freedom law provides 24-hour care centers for victims

2020-02-25T02:18:12.699Z


Minister Irene Montero appears for the first time in the Equality commission. The rule will go to the Council of Ministers on March 3


The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, wants to promote a "powerful and unwavering feminist alliance" that makes Spain an international benchmark for human rights. It is the declaration of intentions he made this Monday in his first appearance at the Equality Commission of the Congress of Deputies. Montero has shelled the axes of its policy. Its first measure is the promotion of the sexual freedom law, the text of which will be presented at the Council of Ministers on March 3 after the government unleashed the clash of its department with Justice at the end of last week. This new norm, which seeks a comprehensive approach against sexual violence, as was the law 1/2004 of gender violence for violence in relationships or partners, provides for the creation of comprehensive care centers for victims who They will work 24 hours a day.

As they explain from the department of Montero, these are specialized centers in attention and intervention in sexual violence for "victims who have suffered sexual violence both in the past and recently." They will be formed by interdisciplinary teams with psychologists, social workers, social educators and legal experts in sexual violence.

The minister has shelled the main measures of her portfolio for this legislature, after pointing out that violence against women “constitutes one of the most serious, habitual and silenced human rights violations of those committed in our society”.

In his appearance he has remembered the victims killed by their partners or ex-partners since 2003, when official statistics began. There are 1,044 women. Only so far this year, 11 women have been killed for this reason. Only one of them filed a complaint. "Most of the victims do not report these facts," Montero admitted. Since there are statistics, the data shows that more than 70% of those killed had never raised the alarm against their aggressor. "It is essential to recognize that the institutional response must be much broader," said Montero, who asks to accompany "all victims, not just those who denounce."

In that sense, the State Pact against Gender Violence, approved in 2017 but barely developed, provides support measures for women such as the recognition of aid and support from municipal social services even if there is no complaint or health screening, it is That is, health services and GPs also turn to the case detection.

All the violence

Montero has stressed that, with this new sexual freedom law, it will be the first time that the Spanish legal system will provide a comprehensive regulatory framework that will recognize as forms of sexist violence all behaviors that imply the violation of the right to decide about sexual life . It covers sexual assaults, sexual harassment, stalking, harassment, sexual extortion and pedophile deception, among others. And also the violence exerted with technology, female genital mutilation, the intentional infection of sexually transmitted diseases, forced marriage or trafficking for reasons of sexual exploitation.

"This ministry and this minister would like to abolish prostitution," Montero said about one of the debates that go through feminism, divided between a majority sector that wants to end this practice and another, with fewer supporters, that demands protection the rights of what they call "sex workers." The minister has admitted, however, the difficulty of carrying it out as her predecessors have confirmed in the position. The ministry will begin "immediately" the work for a future comprehensive law against trafficking.

The fight against violence is one of the axes of this legislature for the Ministry of Equality, in which Montero has also announced redistribution policies and against gender gaps, for which it proposes the development of a law of co-responsible time, or diversity care policies against discrimination against people because of their gender orientation or identity or because of their ethnic or racial origin, for which they have announced the processing of a law for the social equality of LGBTI people and a trans law, " that guarantees the anchoring of the fundamental rights and freedoms of trans people, who go through both self-determination and full depathologization. "

Source: elparis

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