Thousands of people have walked the streets of numerous cities, from Barcelona to Toledo, Valencia or Seville, passing through Madrid, on the International Day against Violence against Women, which now has 41 victims in Spain, waiting to confirm a last crime, that of a 15-year-old teenager.
The motto chosen this 25N has been shame changed sideswith the Pelicot case as a backdrop and with a memory of the women victims of DANA and a call for attention to new forms of violence and denialism.
The marches have been gaining in attendance along the route, which In the case of Madrid it has once again been marked by two calls as a consequence of the division of the feminist movement around the trans law, prostitution and the unwanted effects of the law of only yes is yes.
State Pact
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondoalong with her cabinet colleagues Pilar Alegría and Elma Saiz, has participated in the march called by El Foro de Madrid and the Madrid Feminist Movementwhich started from Cibeles, where slogans such as “Against sexism, more feminism”, “We are the voice of those who are not there”, and criticism of surrogacy or the Only Fans platform have been heard.
In statements to the press, Round has committed to continuing to seek consensus in the renewal of the State Pact against Gender Violence.
“We are an international benchmark, and all advances have occurred with great consensus. Consensus is an essential keyand we are going to continue looking for it in the renewal of the State Pact against sexist violence, because there are new challenges on the horizon, new, truly terrible dangers that stalk us as a society,” said the minister.
Round has warned of new forms of violence and, most especially, denialism: “Denialism that kills and denies evidence,” lamented the head of Equality.
name to name
Meanwhile, the march of the 8M Commission departed from the Glorieta de Atocha, whose participants have kept a minute of silence for the women and minor victims of gender violence murdered this year, whose names they have read one by one.
“María Celeste, 46 years old, Estepa“, the activists read in reference to the last confirmed victim, to which the attendees responded with the cry of “Murdered!”.
The MEP and former minister participated in this march Irene Monterowho has been asked about the complaint of assault against the former deputy Íñigo Errejón and has warned that aggressors have always been protected and victims questioned, but that is what feminism has changed.
“Women are no longer silent and we no longer tolerate the impunity of aggressors.“, he indicated.
Regarding the division of 25N in the streets, they have demonstrated Amaya Ugarte and Ana Martínezfrom the 8M Movement, who have explained that their call is an “inclusive, open march in which they will always walk hand in hand with people who seek to expand our rights”, in relation to the trans collective.
Barcelona, Valencia
Barcelona has once again gathered together in a unitary way around 25N with a march in which more than two thousand people have participated, according to figures from the Urban Guard, called by the ‘Novembre Feminista’ platform under the motto ‘Shame and fear for the aggressors.’
The protest march has started from Paseo de Gracia with Diagonal and it has been made up of different groups of women, people from the LGTBI+ group, as well as unions and political parties (all except PP and Vox).
He Feminist Movement of Valencia has walked the streets of the city against all forms of sexist violence and with the most vulnerable women in the areas affected by dana in the spotlight, to demand a real commitment from institutions in its eradication in the face of the increase in violence sexual.
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