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ARCHIVED - Murcia remembers the 41 Spanish women murdered by their partners and ex-partners in 2020
The CCOO and UGT unions say that the data on sexist violence in the Murcia Region is "very alarming"
All across the Murcia Region and Spain, institutional and educational acts have marked International gender violence day, the aim being to make the tragedy of gender violence visible and involve society in its eradication.
The Regional Assembly (home of the regional parliament) in Cartagena was just one of many emblematic buildings bathed in purple from last night to mark the occasion and across the region local councils and the many organisations which work in the educational process of raising awareness of the issue of gender violence, marked the occasion with commemorative and institutional acts.
Gender violence is an issue which many of its victims refuse to acknowledge or discuss, but is all around us; the UGT and CCOO unions said in a statement on Wednesday that the Murcia Region has an accumulated incidence rate of 19 victims per 100,000 women, the second highest rate in Spain. In a macro-survey carried out by the Spanish Government, 28.5% of women in Murcia had suffered some type of sexist violence at the hands of their partner, 30.6% of the interviewees had suffered sexual harassment during their lives and 10.8% had suffered some type of physical or sexual violence outside of their existing relationship.
The Spanish Red Cross (CRE) reported this Wednesday that during 2019 they were asked to help a total of 826 women victims of gender violence in the Region of Murcia. Of the total, 33.3% are between 40 and 49 years old; 24.4% between 30 and 39 years; 17.4% between 50 and 59 years old; 16.4% between 20 and 29 years old; 6.11% are over 60 years old and 2.2% between 15 and 19 years old.
The image relates to an act in front of San Javier City Hall where the mayor, José Miguel Luengo, read out the institutional manifesto against gender violence in front of a flower bed that remembered the 41 victims of gender violence killed in Spain so far this year, for which a minute of silence was observed.
Coronavirus, the unions say, has increased the threat of sexist violence in "a double way": the crisis caused by the coronavirus, which contributes to "confine women at home", and the institutional presence of "extreme right-wing denial groups" that cut resources for prevention programmes and care for victims.
During the first state of alarm, the Centers for Specialized Attention for Women Victims of Gender Violence (CAVI) and comprehensive care for victims of sexual assault and abuse in the Region of Murcia experienced a 50% and 35.7% increase in the number of users, respectively.
Mayor José Miguel Luengo pointed out that Coronavirus has increased the threat of danger for many women who have to go through a double confinement that increases the danger of abuse within the home, as well as immigrant women who end up being victims of sexual exploitation. He also pointed to the context of gender inequality as the germ of abuse, for which he pointed out the need to work on prevention from childhood.