Collect signatures to improve protection for victims of gender violence
November is the month against domestic violence, whose day is celebrated on the 25th of that month. Coinciding with the anniversary, there are many who this month take to the streets to demand more measures from the rulers to protect victims of gender violence. In this regard, a petition created in Change.org has obtained the almost 50,000 rubrics that it needed.
So far this year, almost 50 women have died at the hands of their partners, very similar numbers and could even exceed those of 2014, when 54 feminicides were counted throughout the year. It is these figures that have prompted the launch of this signature campaign.
The petition, launched by the Association Velaluz gender violence, asks the candidates for the Presidency of the Government to protect "minors and women victims of sexist violence." In his letter, this association recalls some cases of domestic violence experienced so far this year and sentence: "unprotected and unprotected, this is how battered women and their children feel".
Abused women
"Margarita, Rocío and dozens of women with whom we work in the 'Ve-la-luz' association need protection, that Justice ensure their safety and that of their children", insist on the text written on CHange.org, where They add that these women "need to feel empowered to bring about the changes that will allow them to have a decent life."
For all these reasons, your petition wants the Ministry of Justice to "act urgently and take effective measures to protect battered women and their children." Specifically, this is the manifesto prepared by the association with the measures that, they say, "would guarantee adequate protection."
Measures against domestic violence
These are the measures contained in your manifesto, as they appear in the text of the signature petition:
1.- To be recognized those affected by gender violence as victims of "Terrorism"
2.- Legislation prohibiting the guardianship and custody of any kind, as well as the regime of visits in favor of batterers, when there are signs of abuse, negligence and / or abuse.
3.- Amend the "Law for breach of family duties". The new Penal Code establishes that the misdemeanor lawsuits disappear, now the women victims of gender violence will be presented to criminal trials directly, many of them will pay more sentence than their abusers. In the presence of evidence of gender violence, it can not be applicable and the same with the Custodia Compartida.
4.- The state will take care of the alimony of the minors to avoid the misuse of the abuser in court and stop the economic abuse.
5.- The cessation of Institutional Maltreatment and Yes, to the reliable professionalization and continues for the operators of the Judicial Circuit in Violence, creation of courts of violence and biannual rotation of the operators.
6.-The immediate recording of the statements of minors to stop the re-victimization.
7.- The state will ensure the recovery of the victims (women and children) while the judicial process lasts.
8.- Immediate provision of means / specialized personnel in the police forces 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
9.- Sanctions for all those operators, institutions, companies that do not comply with the protocols and bonuses for those who comply with them (Mass Media, General Advocacy Council ...)
10.- Immediate implementation of the Istanbul Protocol.
11.- Modification of the bases of the subsidy grant system whose main base is "The accompaniment, support ..." for organizations, companies.
12.- The signing of agreements that will make the victims independent and recover from the moment of the denunciation: Schools of psychologists (Recovery) Hotels (Transit) Banking (Housing), companies (Work), ... etc.
13.- Cessation of the obligation that is imposed on minors to interact with the abuser. Immediate review of the files contaminated by the unscientific "Parental Alignment Syndrome" and the opening of sanction files for those operators / professionals who have promoted these practices, destroying the lives of mothers and children.
14.- We urge the judges to reinterpret the Higher Interest of the Minor in accordance with the guidelines of the CGPJ and detoxify the judicial circuit of sexist stereotypes and to train in gender.
15.- The Law is complied with and stop subjecting Battered Women to the acceptance of family mediation in contravention of the Integral Law, under the threat of losing the Custody of their Children.
16.- A system that does not convert the ¡Basta ya! in another form of cohabitation with the Abuser but in the Courts.
17.- Loss of Fatherland Power for the Abusers, without the right to visits.
18.- Hardening of the law / sentences and full compliance with them.
19.- Enough of rescue policies based on cuts with lack of transparency in budgets, based on business and not on the recovery and insertion of the victim.
20.- The immediate creation of a Parliamentary Investigation Commission, "specific in gender violence" at the state level, where different representatives of "Ve-la luz" have presence / voice throughout a full day. Enabling an area within the forum for representatives of the CGPJ, Public Prosecutor's Office, Ministries of Justice, State Security Corps, General Council of Advocacy, Forensic Teams, AEN and Psychology Colleges, Media to remain in the room while we expose the current situation .
