MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban Women’s Network, together with other organizations that defend women’s rights, launched this November 14 the campaign #WeHaveNameto demand a gender law in Cuba that guarantees protection standards for women.
From their social networks the feminist platform I call to support the campaign and stressed that “Cuban women cannot continue waiting until 2028 for a Comprehensive Gender Law, we need to act as soon as possible.”
Proposal for the gender law
- Speed up the development of an Organic Law of Comprehensive Protection against gender violence in Cuba, through the elaboration of the strategy that allows the measures to be implemented at all levels.
- Assume transidentities as a specific group. Denying them their legal personality is also an act of violence.
- Legitimize and make official the necessary data on gender violence, which allow effective public policies to be carried out.
- Promote comprehensive prevention campaigns that involve the entire civil society, and that mix information on risk factors and protective factors, as well as that are adapted to the needs and nature of the victims.
- Guarantee comprehensive affective-sexual education from an early age in schools and in the Cuban family, with an approach based on equality and violence prevention, which generates children and adolescents prepared to identify and reject violent behavior and establish healthy relationships.
- Establish protocols for the detection of gender-based violence in all environments, which are harmonized at the state and independent levels, and which include re-education or training work in the face of sexist attitudes and behaviors.
How to participate in the campaign?
The campaign, also called by the Yo Sí Te Creo platform in Cuba, the Casa Palanca initiative, the observatory of the magazine Tense Wings and the feminist program Las Afueras, will be open until December 10.
The Cuban Women’s Network explains that messages in favor of women’s rights may be published on social networks, in video or text format, based on the following scripts:
- Story 1: “Did you know that the women of Cuba do not have a Gender Law that protects them? The government postponed the request for a law until 2028. But Cuban women cannot wait any longer.”
- Story 2: “That is why the Cuban Women’s Network decided to launch the campaign #LeyDeGéneroYa so that women have a law that protects them as soon as possible.”
- “Story 3: “I am (…) and because what is not named does not exist, I join this campaign and I invite you to sign this petition, #We have a Name #LeyDeGeneroYa”. Now I invite (…) to join this challenge.”
In the convocation, the Cuban Women’s Network recalled that so far this year at least 32 women have been victims of femicides on the island.
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