The Cabildo de Tenerife has approved this Friday an institutional motion to exclude from its public aid entities that discriminate against women that has been presented after the decision of the Supreme Court to endorse that the brotherhood of the Slavery of the Santísimo Cristo de La Laguna excludes women in their statutes.
The religious organization that excludes women in Tenerife received almost 2.5 million governments from the Canarian Coalition
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The motion was presented by the Socialist group and, once approved, the CEO of Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, Priscila de León, explained that it is an initiative resulting from the Supreme Court ruling, with which disagrees.
The Cabildo rejects the decision of the Supreme Court because “it perpetuates discriminatory behavior towards women”, indicates De León in a statement, who has valued “the commitment of all groups through this institutional motion” and recalls that public administrations “must combat all the manifestations that still exist of discrimination based on sex and promote real equality between women and men”.
The counselor indicates that this motion also includes the commitment of the Cabildo de Tenerife to urge all associations and private entities on the island, “especially those that finance or pay for some of their projects with public funds”, to initiate a review process of its statutes and internal regulations, in order to adapt them to current national and European legislation on equality.
To this end, the CEO recalls that the island corporation has an Equality advisory service available to all entities that wish to do so, through the Insular Center for Information, Advice and Documentation for Gender Equality (CIADGE) , “with the aim of advancing decisively towards full and effective equality”.
