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On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the universities, we claim our role as active agents in the fight against all types of violence against women and their children, including their closest relatives.
Violence that is rooted in inequalities between men and women, culturally constructed through discriminatory practices assimilated as natural and proper within the established social order.
It is a priority and common objective of universities, the framework of higher education, to collaborate with public authorities and society as a whole to put an end to this type of violence.
In the area of ​​the couple's relationship, gender violence also reaches other relatives, being especially dangerous in the case of daughters and sons, over whom the risks of psychological and physical integrity become a direct danger due to the instrumentalization that of them is done.
In our social context of coexistence, it is essential to eradicate sexual or gender-based harassment in the workplace, abuses and aggressions in festive environments, sexual and reproductive exploitation, trafficking in women and girls, and a long list of violent acts. that are exercised against women by the mere fact of being.
The State Pact against Gender Violence, approved by the Congress and the Senate in September 2017, supposes a strategic framework of action and institutional coordination that has to promote the necessary actions for the eradication of gender violence.
The universities' equality units have been working for some time on the strategic lines established in this agreement, adopting action measures and practices aimed at our environment.
The implementation of these measures entails a continued effort of zero tolerance in the face of violence against women.
That is why, the economic endowment provided in the State Pact, and managed by the autonomous communities, must integrate the corresponding forecast for the inclusion of universities as intervening agents in the fight against gender violence, which requires sufficient means and resources to achieve its objective.
This will give an adequate response to the growing and legitimate social demand, in relation to the people who study in the universities, so that they leave their classrooms with the competences and skills necessary for this indispensable social change towards equality.
Universities have as an essential core of action the principle of equality, being essential the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in all areas of knowledge according to the degree of intensity required in each study.
Likewise, it is a growing social demand that universities provide initial and specific training in the curricula of their degrees, which enables them to practice professionally, with a sufficiently qualified profile, in the processes derived from situations of gender violence.
The barbarous trickle of murders due to gender violence requires the inclusion of continuous, rigorous and updated training for those who have the responsibility to guarantee the rights of the victims and their protection against those who attempt against life, freedom and the rights of women, as well as those of their daughters and sons.
The specialized training aimed at the professional itineraries corresponding to all the judicial agents, the medical facultative body and the sanitary personnel, as well as to the different police bodies and other intervening profiles, is a requirement that can not be avoided before the results that derive from an inadequate bias in the valuation, adoption and maintenance of protection and guarantee measures.
The absence of gender perspective in the evaluation of the facts that underlie this type of violence leads to the consolidation of false budgets, and gives authority to those who deny the existence of systemic violence against women and their families.
In this commemoration of the 25N, the universities maintain our active and firm commitment in the fight against gender violence.
We are aware that for this it is necessary to incorporate the aforementioned training requirements, as well as to grant them a character of urgency.
After long years of cuts in the financing of university institutions, we need the institutional and financial support of the government of the autonomous communities to undertake them.
Without such support, it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for universities to assume them.
As pointed out by the Deputy Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka gender violence is unacceptable, it can be avoided and it can be prevented.
Let's make it possible.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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