The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, intervened this morning together with the Mayor of Ames, Blas García, and the Councilor for Social Welfare, Uxía García, in the inauguration of the Conference “Achégate á Igualdade” that is already in the 14th edition.
During her speech to subdelegate, she pointed out that the speeches that trivialize gender violence and the figure of women, are contributing to the deterioration of the progress achieved in equality policies.
Thus he indicated that we should not accept speeches that perpetuate gender stereotypes, nor actions that make women invisible in public life, in political action, or that relegate them from the spaces of economic power and social prestige.
“That is why we have to be firmer than ever in defending equality policies, in education and in prevention. They are the indispensable basis for a more effective fight against gender-based violence. We cannot take steps back, because as each of the murdered women reminds us, the price as a society is terrible,” said the deputy delegate.
The deputy delegate recalled that at the moment, in the province of A Coruña there are 2,668 victims in VioGen, insisting that each of them represents an inescapable commitment to continue working constantly to protect them, themselves and their families.” In order to achieve this objective, he said, “it is absolutely essential to the collaboration and coordination of all administrations and the State Security Forces”, a task in which we work constantly.
The subdelegate also referred to studies that indicate that 40% of women over 65 years of age have or had a relationship with a partner in which physical, psychological, sexual or economic violence was present for more than 40 years, to which is added that in 17% of cases they lived with violence for 20 to 40 years. These are terrible data that show that 57% of women over 65 years of age are or were victims of some type of gender violence.
He also referred to the data of the prosecutor’s office that indicate that in the year 2022 6,912 complaints of gender violence were registered in Galicia, in the year 2023 there were 7,438, almost 8% more. The removal orders went from 1,273, to 1,299 and the sentences increased from 2,161 to 2,415, a percentage that 80% were condemnatory.
This 14th meeting had as its central theme “the prevention of gender violence from the ethics of care”, in this sense the subdelegate wanted to insist that “the ethics of care invite them to think about our actions, but also to think about prevention policies taking into account the person to whom we are addressed, their characteristics and singularities; because ethics must have a common fund, but the care to be effective must be personalized”.
She stressed that the prevention of gender violence must also take into account the ethics of care, which must be based on the principles of respect, empathy, mutual responsibility and attention to the needs of victims.