As every year, when it reaches once again the date of November 25, declared as "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women," Cieza IU-Greens want to publicly express their commitment to the goals that mark this anniversary and encourage the whole society to ciezana also do so by participating in acts that institutions and organizations convened for that purpose.
Cristina García Glass, Head of Women states that "we got back to the other 25 November and social status of women in our country is the same, continue to occur deaths of women by men who considered their partners sentimental as some of his property. "
According to the representative of Cieza IU-Green, "there are many things that need to change, in many social orders to stop these events occur, the violence is a scourge that permeates our entire society and that manifested in everyday behavior and, unfortunately, usually assumed by most as 'normal' or 'unavoidable'; behaviors that sometimes are we imperceptible and others, yes, they are criticized, but fought with the necessary intensity to eradicate them. "
This is the main reason why they fight it is so difficult, "because it is born, grows and develops in the most intimate areas of people".
However, "we have a fundamental tool that is education and for use with full effect a laborious past, which can not be thought of working in the short term".
Since IU is agree to carry out activities around November 25 "because it is of vital importance from the point of view of the visibility of the problem, to highlight and publicize the rejection of gender violence," although "of ephemeris are useless if they find continuity in a persistent daily work and convinced to end in a foreseeable future as possible, gender violence ".
Cristina García-Glass, "it is clear that neither the society through its main actors and the authorities who govern have managed to articulate sufficient and appropriate tools to act every day of the year, not just on November 25, against gender violence, reflecting ultimately, it sounds stronger say, that somehow tolerated and can even be condemned unreservedly its most violent expressions: the mistreatment and murder ".
Therefore, from Cieza IU-Green "we thought to be celebrated on 25 November, yes, but you must fight every day against sexist behaviors and attitudes that permeate social life, exposing them each and every one of the Sometimes they occur, and we oppose all our rulers made cuts in public budgets for gender equality policies, and ordered the development of active policies, comprehensive and participatory equality, to enable progress toward a free society gender violence at all levels ".
Source: IU-verdes Cieza