During the past year, they attended more than 12.000 women for sexist violence. 50 women were killed, and the numbers of children killed have also increased (from 3 to 7, that is, 4 times more). In this sense, the Canary Institute of Equality, has created a control system to analyze the operation of resources and know the system weaknesses
In addition, the judicial organs of the Archipelago, recorded in the second quarter of this year a total of 2.471 complaints of gender violence. A figure that places at Islands as the most punished territory for sexist abuse, with a ratio of 22,6 women for each 10.000.
This is the highest level in Spain, according to data disseminated by the Observatory against Domestic and Gender Violence of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
The new campaign against gender violence is aimed at calling for active male participation to position and combat macho behaviors. It also focuses on fighting other attitudes, such as situations of harassment, jokes, intimate images in WhatsApp groups or daily sexist comments that substantiate and justify violence against women and they perpetuate the prevalence of an unequal society.
All this to try to stop the high figures we have in Canary Islands. The sexual assaults among minors have increased by 21%. The campaign puts the focus and hope in the promotion of egalitarian masculinities. Get men to join this fight, that oppose macho situations, that fight against it, that stop normalizing macho situations By simple custom or culture. In short, the campaign seeks to position men in situations of violence against women.
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