Like every year, dozens of towns and villages across Spain will fill with voices and banners demanding an end to gender-based violence and gender inequality. This November 25, International Day Against Gender-Based Violence, demonstrations and protest events will take place in many regions of the country, where feminist groups will take to the streets to denounce the multiple forms of violence suffered by women.
In Madrid there will be two different marches which will start at 7:00 p.m. This division is not new, since it is already the third year that two paths have been taken, marked by divergences around issues such as gender self-determination for trans people, prostitution and, in 2021, the law “only yes means yes”. “. On the one hand, there is the demonstration traditionally organized since the end of the 90s by the Madrid Forum against violence against women and the Madrid Feminist Movement. On the other that of Commission 8M, which organized the feminist strikes of 2018 and 2019.
Although both events will start at the same time and occupy the center of Madrid, the route will be different. The Madrid Forum will take place from Cybele until Spanish Steps under the motto “Fight sexism to eradicate violence against women”. The organizing organizations denounce that, twenty years after the approval of the law against gender violence, the assassinations of women continue “at intolerable figures while the institutional response also stagnates”. Last year 2023, according to official figures, 55 women were murdered in Spain by their partner or ex-spouse, six more than the previous year and so far in 2024 there are 41.
For its part, the march of Commission 8M will start from Atosha and will end in Alcalá Street. The organization considers that, although in recent weeks media attention has focused on sexual violence, “it is important to have a global vision which understands that the patriarchal structure goes much further and that its multiple types violence affects us all. areas of our lives in the form of femicide, indirect violence, hate crimes against diversity, economic violence and so on. This demonstration defines itself as a “safe space for women and dissidents”.
Demonstrations in the rest of the country
Madrid will not be alone in hosting two different appeals. In Valence Two different days will also be celebrated. The first, organized on Sunday November 24, will denounce sexist and racist violence. The march will start at 6:00 p.m. in front of Gare du Nord and end at Plaza Barón de Cortés.
The next day, Monday November 25, the Feminist Coordinator of Valencia has called another demonstration at 7:00 p.m., which will cover the route from Puerta de la Mar to Plaza del Ayuntamiento, with the DANA tragedy as its main theme. affected the province.
In Asturias The Oviedo demonstration will take place on Monday November 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Renfe station. In Barcelonawill start at 6:30 p.m. from Paseo de Gràcia and Diagonal, and at Cadiz at 6:00 p.m. on Barcelona Street. Bilbao will call for his march at 7:00 p.m. on the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Square, while he Seville The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Columns of the Alameda de Hércules. In Teruel It will be at 8:00 p.m. in Plaza del Torico and at Toledo from Paseo de la Vega at 6:00 p.m. Santander will join the day at 7:00 p.m. at the Puerto Chico Rotunda, and at Valladolidthe demonstration will take place at 8:00 p.m. in Plaza Fuente Dorada.
In addition to these cities, there are many other protests in towns and villages, from where feminist groups will rise to make visible and condemn all forms of gender-based violence.
