Since 2003, the date on which femicides began to be counted, machismo has affected the lives of 105 women and eight minors.
He President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijoled the minute of silence in rejection signal for the macho crime in the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands in the capital of Tenerife. The act took place in parallel at the headquarters of the capital of Gran Canaria and at those of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands on the two capital islands.
«Anyone from any island or municipality can alert by calling 1-1-2 Suspecting that a woman, from her family, from her environment, is suffering ill-treatment. We can’t look away and The abusers should know that they have the whole of society in front of us», he remembered.
Clavijo stressed that during the summer, and in the rest of the holiday seasons, complaints of gender violence increase due to the increase in the time of coexistence between the abuser and the victim. In fact, Until July 31, the Canary Islands had 5,378 active cases in the VioGén system, of which one is an extreme case, 64 at high risk and 827 at medium risk.
Manifest
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families, Candelaria Delegate, was in charge of reading the manifesto of condemnation. «This murder It is not an isolated incident, that, although femicide is the most extreme demonstration of violence against womenis not the only example, since we live in a profoundly unequal society, whose social structure encourages all kinds of discrimination and violence against women: physical violence, economic violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, symbolic violence,” he denounced.
The Government of the Canary Islands announced the decision not to reset the counter to zero at the beginning of the year and continue naming each of the victims of sexist violence, women and minors, since otherwise it would imply invisibility and oblivion.
In this sense, both Clavijo and Delgado they appealed to the involvement of society to deal with femicides. “That is why the role of institutions is important in the search for an egalitarian and just society: a structural inequality needs structural measures to be subverted, public policies that, in collaboration and in agreement with all the social agents, gradually but firmly transform this world, until turning it into a place where the simple fact of being a woman does not constitute a danger of death”, said Delgado. In this sense, the counselor announced the strengthening of the measures deployed to fight against sexist violence in the Canary Islands with a Promotion of transversal actions in coordination with other areas such as Health or Education. «We are already putting more resources, with the necessary financing to the councils so that they can start them up. It is a matter of coordinating, between the four administrations that operate in the Canary Islands, putting all the battery of measures that are necessary to try to put an end to sexist violence,” he said.
From the Feminist Network of Gran Canaria yesterday they joined the unanimous condemnation of the Canarian society to this last murder. «With these scandalous figures that we have in hand. There are already 35 women murdered so far this year. This is unbearable and unsustainable. It has to be a priority the minutes of silence are not worth it much less the political scenario that we are seeing ahead where resources begin to be cut and options are withdrawn from women»denounced Nereida Vizuete.
