November 25 (25N) is approaching, International Day Against Gender-Based Violenceand this is why the Feminsta movement in Mallorca has already called two demonstrations in Palma, including one at night, and in tribute to women murdered by gender violence.
The tribute ceremony will take place soon November 23 at 12:00 p.m. at the Jardí de Les Dones, located in the Patio de La Misericòrdia in Palma.
The first event will take place on November 24 with a route that will begin at 9:00 p.m., in the Plaza de París, and will continue to the Courts of Palma on the German road.
The big event will take place on 25N from 7:00 p.m. The demonstration will leave the Plaza de España in Palma and will follow Avenida de Alemana to the Plaza del Tubo. At the end of the visit, a manifesto will be read.
“Recent cases like the Pellicot case, the Errejón case or the businessmen accused in Murcia show us that sex offenders are not hooded monsters who attack us on the street corner. They are our neighbors, our colleagues or classmates, our parents and our professionals.…. “They are healthy children of patriarchy,” denounced the Feminist Movement.
In addition, they called for “ending the culture of rape, especially in the Balearic Islands, which doubles the rate of sexual assault in the state.”
20 years since the first law against gender-based violence
It should be remembered that this year 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Act on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violencea step that the Feminist Movement wants to highlight this 25N.
It is for this reason that she once again called on Majorcan society to take to the streets to make visible the sexist violence carried out against women simply for being women.
Above all, “at a time when denialist speeches advance“. Well, it is in this context that “it is more necessary than ever to emphasize that women continue to suffer specific, structural and systematic violence”. So, in fact, the development of the law begins, “and 20 years later it seems that it still has not been fully adopted.”
