(EFE).- Miguel Díaz-Canel assured this Friday that there will be “zero tolerance” for sexist violence, which he classified as “an unacceptable act” on the Island.
“This has to be a society with zero tolerance for violence and in particular for violence against women,” said Dáz-Canel in his first public pronouncement on this matter, which has gained much greater notoriety with the rise of feminist platforms. freelancers and social media.
The Cuban president met with 480 women from the provinces of Havana, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila in a meeting called Women’s voices for gender non-violenceheld this Friday in Santa Clara, as reported by the Presidency in Twitter.
“A single woman being violated is not only a blow to the feminist tradition of the Revolution, it is an unacceptable act for our socialist society,” Díaz-Canel stressed.
In Cuba there are no public figures on femicides and the official media practically do not report on it.
Díaz-Canel said that “due to the very strength of the social work of the Revolution, it is inadmissible for us that there are still manifestations of violence against women in our society,” during the meeting organized by the pro-government Federation of Cuban Women, close to the Party Communist of Cuba (PCC, the only legal one in the country).
Díaz-Canel said that a national debate will be held, as well as a group of actions to protect women who may be victims of gender violence.
Previously, she had announced on Twitter her participation in “this important meeting for a Cuba without violence against women.”
In a video released about his intervention at the meeting, Díaz-Canel said that a national debate will be held, as well as a group of actions to protect women who may be victims of gender violence.
The work of independent platforms against gender violence and its dissemination by some independent media has helped to focus on this issue, particularly the cases of sexist murders and disappearances of women. The observatories of these feminist groups have confirmed 23 femicides on the island so far this year and 141 since 2019.
The most recent case was reported last Monday. It was the sexist murder of a young woman at the hands of her partner in Havana, the third documented in the last week. Yo Sí Te Creo has insisted on a “Third Call” that calls for the declaration of a “State of Emergency in Cuba due to Gender Violence”, which was signed by 15 independent projects.
This appeal criticizes the lack of protocols and prevention mechanisms in Cuba, the persistence of problems in complying with restraining orders for possible victims and receiving complaints, as well as the lack of shelters and protection networks.
The most recent official statistics on this type of event appear in the 2016 National Survey of Gender Equality in which 10,698 women participated.
The independent activists insist on demanding the approval of a specific comprehensive law on gender violence.
They consider that femicide should be expressly classified as a crime in the current Cuban Penal Code, although it contemplates gender-based violence.
The most recent official statistics on this type of event appear in the 2016 National Survey of Gender Equality in which 10,698 women participated and showed that 26.7% of Cuban women between the ages of 15 and 74 claimed to have suffered some kind of of violence in their relationship.
The state press is not used to collecting these facts –increasingly visible through social networks – but lately several media have reported some and have recognized the need for a comprehensive law that focuses on gender violence, as well as “more public and timely statistics.”
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