- The Platform Against Sexist Violence criticizes that the risk of women who suffer violence is not assessed either
Elena F. Gordon / ICAL “We have to denounce that everything that has to do with awareness, prevention, co-education, emotional sexual education, reparation for victims and also the assessment of the risk of women who suffer violence is failing.” . It is one of the messages launched today by the spokesperson for the Platform Against Sexist Violence of León, Encina Gutiérrez, during the march on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women that toured the center of the capital of León and Hundreds of people joined.
In the year that marks two decades since the approval of the Comprehensive League against Gender Violence in Spain and one since the Istanbul Convention was ratified, the group regretted that not only violence against women has not been eradicated but that almost all indicators have increased this year.
In addition, he stressed that there has been an increase in denialism on the part of younger boys “who continue to say that this sexist violence is an ideological invention” and there has also been an increase in physical violence and sexual assaults and a decrease in the age of who commits sexual assaults: something they link to pornography.
“This makes us demand that administrations comply with legal mandates because legislating is not enough. It is necessary that what is legislated be applied and we need the commitment and responsibility of all public powers,” he added before referring to the ruling of the Provincial Court of Murcia that acquitted businessmen related to a plot of minors for sexual exploitation. . That ruling, he said, “sends the message that there is impunity for the aggressors and helplessness and violation for the victims. Therefore, this is the message that we have to leave this November 25: that we have to continue and demand that the administrations comply with what is legislated.”
