Although houses for women’s dignity are in 21 departments, they would not be implemented in their entirety.
Congress Women’s Commission. Political control debate to the implementation of Law 2453 of 2025.
The Senator Norma Hurtado revealed the violence figures reported against women in politics, according to the parties or movements to which they belong.
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“And this is important, here we see the U, the Democratic Center, the Communist Party, which denounce death threats where they send a woman who participates in internal politics and This makes us a very important call, it is the alert that women have begun to report, Because it was not normal for women to report, it was not frequent, “he said.
He added that “it was rather to remain silent in the face of an obvious aggression in the political sphere and today this painting means a lot for us.”
According to the Congressman of the U Party, between 2022 and 2025 the complaints that were received for each community were distributed as follows:
- Radical change: 8 complaints.
- Conservative party: 8 complaints.
- U party: 12 complaints.
- Liberal Party: 13 complaints.
- Green Alliance: 16 complaints.
- Democratic Pole: 16 complaints.
- Democratic Center: 18 complaints.
- MAIS: 19 complaints.
- Coalition: 43 complaints.
For its part, Senator Aída Avella denounced an alleged case of political persecution against the historical pact, indicating that “which carries the greatest number of women”, product of their zip list, where there are 10 senators of the 20 members that the coalition has, in the upper house.
“Why do they put so much obstacle in the National Electoral Council to recognize a legal status? Among other things, women are injured, because if there is any party that linked their women, not only in theory, but in practice. Because? Because we present men-women lists or woman-man, ”he said.
At the same time, representative Luz Aid Pastrana, questioned the lack of monitoring and statistics by the Government to account for cases of violence against women in politics.
The congresswoman said that “there is an increase in PAHOs for a Ministry of Equality that does not execute as it should execute”, and that it would not be doing the same “to reduce these gaps in gender”, and at the same time reduce the figures in violence.
“The Dane, for example, says that there is a great void and is the absence of a direct measurement on political violence against women and what is not counted, does not count. Unfortunately, cases are not registered as they should be registered And unfortunately cases such as mine today are not part of accounts that the national government has, ”he said.
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Within the framework of the debate, congressmen revealed that although houses for the dignity of women are in 21 departments, not all would be implemented in their entirety.
They assured that there are 11 other departments that do not have these prevention houses and what would generate failures in adequate attention for violence.
The figures were revealed during the political control debate to the national government to respond on violence against women in politics, in the face of the 2026 elections.
Source: Integrated information system
