The eradication of violence against women in all its forms and extension constitutes a universal duty that falls to all of us, precisely because of the unworthy treatment and frontally contrary to human rights that one third of the female population in the world receives, according to UN data.
Therefore, and in memory of the memory of the Mirabal sisters -who were brutally murdered in 1960 for their opposition to the tyranny of dictator Rafael Leónidas-, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which we annually commemorate On November 25, it should serve to reflect and give voice to those who suffer the loss of their freedom, dignity, integrity and indemnity, as fundamental rights to protect because they are inherent to the person.
Eliminate all gender violence, a universal duty
The different forms of violence that affect women, sexual, physical, verbal and psychological, are not always expressed in such an explicit way as abuse, aggression, insult or threat, since they often take on a more subtle aspect –Although equally serious and despicable– and they take place in areas as varied and everyday as family, work, educational, community or virtual.
The truth is that economic, digital or substitution violence –the sad and lately popularized as vicarious, exercised against relatives and close friends of a woman– – exists and causes personal, family and social damage that is often permanent and irreparable. Violence against women is also any act that contributes to perpetuating discriminatory situations, such as the imposition of customs, the control of movements through social networks or the lack of freedom and autonomy derived from the wage gap, the glass ceiling , the underrepresentation of women in decision-making bodies or a conciliation policy far from co-responsibility.
This November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
The casuistry of violence and discrimination that women suffer in a systematic and structural way is very varied, and, for this reason, it is so necessary that all units of attention to victims such as police stations, educational centers, hospitals and municipalities have teams who have received specific training in gender perspective and work in coordination to offer citizens a comprehensive response to put an end to these intolerable situations.
The public powers, companies, institutions, social agents and citizens in general, must cooperate in the essential awareness of this reality and flee from the trivialization that, sometimes and alarmingly, is perceived about feminism, whose claim essential is to end all gender violence and discrimination, both evident and invisible, with the conviction that equality, as Simone Weil said, “is a vital need of the human soul.”
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