The Government Delegation welcomed this morning the reading of an institutional manifesto on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which is commemorated today, with the aim of turning 8M into a “speaker of the feminist agenda”.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has pointed out that what it is about, with events such as today, is to show the reality while valuing the policies of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez in favor of real and effective achievement, as well as raising awareness of the citizens so that “both men and women work for a country and for a more feminist city.”
“The policies that the government has carried out are along the lines of achieving that equality, but we must continue to work and do it from unity, from consensus, from coordination and from the faithful conviction that this is a real problem, that it exists and that we have to work to achieve that real equality.”
Struggle for Rights
The Head of the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women, Laura Segura, for her part, pointed out that all 8M “claim the struggle of women for real equality, we remember the path we have traveled with many obstacles, with many walls”.
In fact, she stressed that “nothing has been given to us”, since “women have fought for each of the rights we have achieved”. Therefore, he has indicated that “today what we are trying to do is to raise society’s awareness of the importance of continuing to expand these rights and continue consolidating them.”
Segura referred to the “reactionary wave that runs through Europe and practically the world of the extreme right” and warned that there is a risk of thinking that “everything we have is given to us and therefore we cannot lose it”.
“It is important to bear in mind that inequality has an extreme manifestation that is male violence, that in our country 1,245 women have been killed since we have data,” he recalled, while pointing out that only so far this year, 5 women have already been killed. “Every six days, she’s practically a woman’s killer,” she said.
Accomplice negationism
For precisely this reason, Segura has insisted that we must continue to consolidate each of the advances that have been made in the field of gender violence, while “we must raise awareness in society that negationism kills, that negationism is complicit and that March 8 is the loudspeaker of the feminist agenda”. “March 8 is a day when we have to act as a speaker for everything we have yet to do,” he said.
Thus, he referred to the need to continue working to extend the protection, coordination and reparation of all forms of violence against women and not only gender violence in the context of the couple, but also of women who are sexually exploited. “We need a trafficking law, we need an abolitionist law and we need to continue working to publicize all those farms that women suffer in their own bodies,” he said.
“Today, the Delegation wanted to highlight Spain’s commitment to this agenda, to the women’s agenda, to the feminist agenda and the need to continue expanding all these rights and materialize them in action and public policies as we have been doing,” he said.
The Head of Unit has acknowledged that progress has been made in recent years “in an unquestionable way.” “We have made great progress in terms of gender-based violence and equality,” she said and said, “this is the way so that, in a matter of 50 years, as the data tells us, we can achieve a more egalitarian, fairer and democratic society.”
In the reading of today’s manifesto, in addition to Moh and Segura have participated a dozen people from different fields such as the Superior Chief of Police, José Antonio Togores; the Territorial Director of the Imserso, Verónica Aznar; the Provincial Director of the SEPE, Jorge Vera; the Commander of the Civil Guard, Miguel Ángel Caballero; the Director of the Agricultural Area of the Delegation, Isabel Bassets; the Chief Inspector of the Local Police of Melilla, José David Gutiérrez; the Juan Mebermad Provincial Director of the Cabinet