The United Nations commemorates every November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a day to make visible that violence against women “remains an obstacle to achieving equality, development, peace, as well as respect for human rights of women and girls ”.
And he insists that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be met without first ending violence against women and girls, which is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in the world today.
According to United Nations data: one in three women has suffered physical or sexual violence mainly from their partner;
one in every 2 women fatalities in 2017 was murdered by their sentimental partner or a family member;
71% of trafficking victims worldwide are women and girls and 3 out of 4 of them are used for sexual exploitation;
Almost 750 million women and girls were married before their 18th birthday and at least 200 million of them have been subjected to female genital mutilation.
In addition, violence against women is a cause of death and disability among women as serious as cancer.
The PSOE together with Socialist Youth of Totana reaffirm today their firm commitment in the fight against gender violence as the most brutal show of inequality between women and men.
This year in our country, we have exceeded the dramatic figure of more than a thousand women killed by their partners or ex-partners since there are official records in 2003. A violence that has also claimed the lives of 34 children since 2013, as a result of the violence exerted on their mothers, and has left 275 orphaned minors.
Therefore, on this day we want to show support for all the victims: the murdered women, their orphaned sons and daughters;
to their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends.
We share their pain, their desolation and fight their cause.
Every November 25, the Socialists and the Socialists reaffirm each other on the path taken.
We are proud to have implemented the comprehensive law against gender violence, which turns 15 next December.
We pride ourselves in having promoted the State Pact against sexist violence, because no partisan interest could be above the recognition of the drama that this violence entails.
Human drama for broken families, for the daily fear that many women suffer, for misunderstanding and sometimes even for indifference.
We are the party that has always been on the side of women, the feminist struggle, the battle against abusers and their violence.
No excuses and no ambiguities.
In our country we currently live moments of anxiety.
The shadow of the extreme right looms over our democracies.
Advances in Europe and Spain is no longer an exception.
Now, trying to break the consensus reached, they deny the very existence of gender-based violence, they want to point to people who work with victims, they disrespect murdered women and their families.
The extreme right and its accomplices want to bring us back to black and white times, and they want to do it at the expense of women.
There is a frontal attack on feminism.
And they will find us in front of socialist women and men.
Together with our partners and sisters.
Together with the rest of women and men, we defend that equality, freedom and security are inalienable.
Principles that we are able to establish in our democracies with increasing effort, without discouragement and incessant struggle.
We will not allow equality and democracy to be brought into play.
From now on, nothing will be done without us or against us.
Therefore, today more than ever, the Socialist Party firmly declares that we will not allow “not even a step back” in the fight against gender violence, in its prevention, in its treatment and in the reparation of the victims.
We manifest it today, November 25, in a worldwide call that from United Nations crosses borders and to which we unite with the responsibility and the conviction that one should, and can, end the macho violence.
