Castilla-La Mancha asks the government to update the law and have more funds to effectively combat gender-based violence

The Government of Castile-La Mancha has demanded from the Central Executive a updating of the law on comprehensive protection measures against gender violence and increased funding so that autonomous communities can fight more effectively against gender-based violence.

Two requests that the Minister of Equality of Castile-La Mancha, Sara Simón, expressed during her speech at the institutional event organized by the Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha on the occasion of this 25-N in the town of Albacete de Munerawhich took place under the theme “Let the only number be 0”, in reference to the objective of completely ending cases of gender-based violence and the murders of women at the hands of their partners.

A meeting attended by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, who called “fight” those who “even dare to take the microphone and defend inequalities”.

“I want to make this very clear. Castilla-La Mancha will continue to be a benchmark for progress in equality and the fight against gender-based violence. This is my personal commitment. Let this 25-N be for us a rebellion against numbers; We’re not going to stop until the only number is ‘0’,” Page wrote early in the morning on his official social media profiles.

Unity of action

“This should unite the left and the right,” said Page, who regretted that only 8% of women victims of gender-based violence report itemphasizing that the first step in eradicating this problem is to ensure that all cases are brought to the attention of the authorities.

The president also announced from Munera that next Wednesday the work of the future comprehensive care center for victims of sexual assault in Ciudad Realrecalling that Albacete already has a similar resource and that Castilla-La Mancha will be “the community that will first complete the network” of centers against this scourge.

Furthermore, Page recalled that Castile-La Mancha was the first region in Europe “to legislate against gender violence”with a law approved in 2001 and which “even caused controversy”, and highlighted the work in favor of equality carried out in educational centers in the region, thanks to a pioneering Coexistence and Equality Plan.

According to the Minister of Equality, it is today more urgent than ever to tackle the negationist postulates of training and pedagogy, in addition to the strengthen the State Pact against gender violence to allow “not a single crack nor a single favor to machismo and negationism”.

Broadening the concept of violence

Regarding the revision and improvement of the law on comprehensive protection measures against gender violence, in force since 2004, Simón considers it necessary to broaden the concept of violence and put an end to machismo in the digital and artificial intelligence environmentin addition to fighting against trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation or sexual violence.

Likewise, he sued the State “bigger and better” funding for autonomous communities continue to fight against this scourge. Without this, “we cannot strengthen efforts, not only to treat the victims, but also to train and raise awareness among the population,” insisted the advisor.

More than 300 women helped

“During this year 2024, we have already attended more than 26,800 consultations regarding gender violence and we have helped 309 women, with their 256 minors, to escape their attacker and have to abandon themselves,” detailed Sara Simón, who analyzed the data in the following key: “This means that There is a lot of gender-based violence, of course, but that also means that the system continues to functionthat the system supports, cares for and protects, that every year the lives of hundreds of women in the country are saved and that thousands of women break this spiral of terror to start their lives again thanks to public resources.

Although he acknowledged that “there are mistakes that we all have to rearm from, situations that we do not reach and continuing challenges to overcome”, he insisted that “the system works” and that what fails in him is machismo itself. , SO He asked not to allow Holocaust deniers who “use fear to push us back.”.

During the institutional event, five educational centers in Castile-La Mancha (one per province) were awarded for sowing “seeds of equality” between students and their families. These are CEIP Cervantes (Munera, Albacete); CEIP San Juan Bosco (San Carlos Carlos del Valle, Ciudad Real); IESO 4 de Julio (Cañete, Cuenca), CEIP Alcarria (Guadalajara); and the IESO Almudena Grandes (Ugena, Toledo).