Domestic violence in Spain. Why?

At the beginning of the new year, Spain was shrouded in the shadow of domestic violence, and several domestic violence incidents occurred in a week, all of which were serious and caused women to die.

65438+1 October1In the early morning, a man murdered his wife and daughter in his home in Torrevieja, Alicante province, and committed suicide.

65438+ 10 3, a woman died tragically at home in Malaga, southern Spain. There are traces of domestic violence on her body, and her corpse apartment was set on fire by her partner.

654381October 4th, a 43-year-old woman was strangled by her spouse in hortaleza residential area in the north of Madrid. The perpetrator was a 4 1 year-old Kosovo man, and the murdered woman was Romanian.

65438+108, a 26-year-old Romanian man was arrested by the police this morning. He was accused of killing his 19-year-old Romanian girlfriend and dumping her body in Harlingue Reservoir near badajoz.

Spanish society has been criticized for male chauvinism, and cases of gender violence and domestic violence have emerged one after another. In just 20 15 a year, 57 women died of domestic violence and gender violence. From the beginning of 2008 to the end of 2065, 266 women died of domestic violence. From 20 12 to 20 15, 2 15 women also died here. Since 2003, a total of 82 1 women have died in domestic violence cases, with an average of more than 5 women killed every month. In addition, in the past 12 years, the number of children who died in such family cases was as high as 834. Therefore, government leaders at all levels and political party representatives called on Spain to introduce stricter laws and various assistance measures to protect women's life safety and basic rights.

When commenting on the gender equality in Spanish society, someone once said that Spanish women are often more masculine than men, because most women choose silence and patience when they encounter gender and domestic violence, and even lose their precious lives for years. According to statistics, in the known domestic violence cases, only 23% of caring policewomen report domestic violence crimes, and there are many unknown domestic violence. Therefore, women's forbearance and inaction encourage men's violent crimes.

Some religious people also believe that this regrettable incident happened because many marriages or relationships are based on superficial sexual relations and lack truly sacred marriage relations. The only way to criticize Spanish politicians is to strengthen legal sanctions to prevent similar killings, while ignoring the study of the inner world of human beings in essence, so as to reduce such violent incidents.

The Spanish people are even more complaining about this. Spain has never been a society with a deep concept of equality between men and women, and the inequality between men and women permeates every bit of social life. For example, the proportion of Spanish women holding high-level positions in various fields is extremely small, and the wages of women working in the same job are much lower than those of men. Moreover, the division of labor within many Spanish families is that men work outside, and women also take care of their families while working outside. Many times, after family gatherings, men continue to drink and chat, waiting for women to collect chopsticks. It can be seen that the emergence of gender-based violence cases is not groundless, but has its growing soil in Spanish society.

In such a grim situation, the government launched the domestic violence hotline 0 16 in 2007, which is not only available 24 hours a day, but also has no trace of telephone records, and is committed to protecting women's safety. Since its inception in 2007, the number of calls for help has reached its peak in 20 15, reaching 8 1992, which is much higher than the number of calls received in 2008. Especially in June 5438+00 and February 12 this year, the number of distress calls reached a peak, exceeding 8,000.

More and more telephone records of domestic violence help show that the anti-domestic violence efforts have achieved initial results, and women's rights and interests are being maintained and improved bit by bit. On the one hand, it benefits from the government's unremitting propaganda and education of the people, on the other hand, it also reflects that women's awareness of self-protection has increased, they no longer silently endure violence and trampling, and actively stand up and defend their sacred rights.

According to the big data survey of gender violence cases, at least 77% of the women who were oppressed by domestic violence in Spain got out of the shadow of domestic violence through their own struggles and efforts, found their place again and started a happy life.

It is gratifying that immigrants also account for a large proportion of domestic violence cases, and the Spanish government has also expressed its all-round support for foreign women with practical actions. From 20 13, 5,654 foreign women who were illegally detained because of domestic violence in Spain were granted legal status to help foreign women live independently in Spain. So far, the government has helped female victims obtain 2,465 work contracts and 65,438+065,438+077 temporary contracts, and approved 65,438+0762 financial assistance and 65,438+065,438+0755 apartments to help 365,438+0555 female victims.

Therefore, I hope that when you experience unexpected domestic gender violence, please pick up the phone for your own and your children's future, because there may really be only 0 16 difference between a stormy disaster and a happy and peaceful life.