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The President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, announced this Monday that his government will send the new law against gender violence to the Cortes of Castilla y León in January 2025. A new norm that seeks, as he said, “to regulate digital and indirect violence and strengthen care for vulnerable women.
This is how Mañueco spoke on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and during the inauguration ceremony in Salamanca of the first care center for victims of violence sexual in the community.
The President of the Council indicated that his Executive would send this Tuesday the new law against gender violence to the Consultative Council with the aim of reaching the Autonomous Chamber at the beginning of 2025.
“What it seeks is to regulate new forms of violence, digital violence, indirect violence, that is to say, that which occurs against family members of sexist violence, to strengthen prevention and care and strengthen the fight against sexual assault,” he said.
The President of the Council assured that his objective is for the law “to provide legal progress to strengthen the protection of victims and respond to these new types of violence, digital and indirect”.
“Also strengthen prevention, by responding to particularly vulnerable women, in particular those who suffer from a certain type of disability,” he added, announcing a “strong campaign” in the media to “raise awareness” in society of Castilla y León to the “scourge of gender violence.”
“All efforts add up, we have trained thousands of people in 2023, we are going to have more help and support points for victims of gender-based violence. We want to improve the facilities that accommodate victims of gender-based violence” , he concluded.
