SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 24. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, stated today, Friday, at the institutional event held on the occasion of November 25, Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, that the Government’s commitment “against gender violence is unbreakable because it does not “There is greater inequality than that represented by sexist violence.”
The president recalled the five women murdered this year in the Archipelago and claimed the need to continue fighting against “the endemic evil” of violence and machismo.
“We owe it to Hayate, Carmen, Rebeca, Evarista and María Esther, fatal victims of violence committed by their partners this year in the Canary Islands. We owe it to each and every one of the one hundred and six women and the eight minors who lost their lives due to sexist violence in the Canary Islands since the registration of victims began,” he said.
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families, Candelaria Delgado, read the institutional declaration, approved by the Government of the Canary Islands in the Government Council, which states that sexist violence “is a structural public health problem that violates fundamental rights” and points to “machismo” as the only reason.
“It is not a perception of an anecdotal problem that exaggerates feminism, of a question of political parties. No, gender violence and its multiple manifestations are a first-order social problem that requires a pact at the highest level against machismo , the true cause of gender violence, the framework that triggers each and every one of the femicides,” he noted.
For her part, the director of the Canary Islands Equality Institute (ICI), Ana Brito, recalled that the Government’s institutional campaign within the framework of 25N has been dedicated to making economic violence visible. Ana Brito described how the ICI’s care for victims of gender violence is structured in collaboration with each of the councils and expressed her “total and absolute rejection of all forms of gender violence.” “I raise my voice for each and every one of the Canarian women who suffer gender violence in silence and I tell them loud and clear: they are not alone!”
During the event, there was a dance and voice show, the advertisement for this year’s campaign with the slogan ‘Economic violence is inVISIBLE’ was projected, and an exhibition of visual thinking images took place.
