Domestic Violence
The shattered glass represents the broken lives and dreams caused by domestic violence. abuses in families are absolutely contrary to God’s plan of mutual care and fraternity for humanity. domestic violence, inflicted especially upon women and children, is a horrendous scourge. To eradicate it we need to foster the education on values of love, equality, respect and dialogue, in society. The alleviation of poverty, protection of the vulnerable and law enforcement will give the victims the courage to speak out and unveil this atrocious crime.
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Combating Femicide Through Integral Education Based On The Dignity Of Women, Protection Of Life And Gender Equality
BY SL | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Each new case of murder linked to the sex of the victim shakes Argentinian society. In fact, 82% of these murders take place in the context of domestic violence and 60% occur in the victim’s home. In addition, in 20% of cases, the victim had previously reported the aggressor, while 66% of the aggressors are partners or former partners of the victims. In 2019, the 252 murders linked to the sex of the victim, left 222 children and adolescents without mothers. “What to do in the face of this scourge?” asks the National Commission for Justice and Peace, in a statement on femicides in the country, which was sent to Fides.
In Argentina, at the legislative, administrative and judicial level, work is underway to eradicate the phenomenon, underlines the note. However, “each new femicide tells us that there is still a long way to go. Interdisciplinary and co-ordinated intervention by the various bodies is essential, as is the end of indifference and the effective use in all cases of all the instruments made available by the State. No sign of violence can be taken lightly when reported to the authorities”.
The note highlights that this violence also has innumerable economic and social causes which must be addressed and cannot be absolutely used as mitigating circumstances or as justifications.
Many women live in the midst of economic violence, which is silenced, denied or ignored, influenced by economic, social or cultural factors that make it difficult for victims to protect themselves from violence. “This must change radically. It is essential to address the need for equal treatment of women’s working conditions, be it domestic, professional, social or cultural work”.
Such cultural change, concludes the note, will only be possible by promoting an integral education, which has as its theme the dignity of women and the protection and care of life, based on gender equality, at all levels of training and covering all the social sectors. “It is also fundamental to work to recover families destroyed by situations of high psychosocial vulnerability, a source of extreme violence. This is why it is necessary to deepen public policies with a view to increased social sensitivity to put an end to this culture of waste, as Pope Francis reminds us”.
Source: fides.org/en/news/69746