The Government’s deputy delegate in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, today highlighted the Government’s firm commitment to the promotion and protection of women’s rights, real and effective equality between women and men, as well as public policies that resolve the inequalities faced by women. Isabel Rodríguez, who read this morning a manifesto in the Subdelegation of the Government on the occasion of International Women’s Day, emphasized that Spain consolidates itself as a feminist country and warned that there are still important challenges ahead.
Isabel Rodríguez referred to violence against women and the different legislative initiatives promoted by the Government to offer resources to all victims of male violence. Thus, he highlighted the Law on the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, which will involve the deployment throughout the territory of 24-hour crisis centres with psychological, legal and social assistance services that will allow victims to be accompanied; the Camino Plan, the first integration plan for women victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, endowed with more than 200 million euros; or the reinforcement of the State Pact against Gender Violence, with a historical budget that reaches 320 million euros.
The Deputy Delegate also welcomed the measures approved at the labor level by the Central Executive, such as the increase in the SMI, the recognition of the labor rights of domestic workers, the approval of equal pay, as well as the reduction of temporary contracts and the precariousness caused by labor reform.
It also highlighted the Government ' s determined response to address the diversity of women and their needs and contexts. In this way, she recalled that women with disabilities finally saw a historic claim materialized in Spain with the elimination of forced sterilizations; the Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy was approved, which shields free, safe and free abortion; and the right to gender self-determination for trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people was recognized.
Finally, the subdelegate appealed to these feminist policies to also contribute to a feminist Europe as a common house of rights and freedoms.