Logroño, (EFE).- The representative of the Commission against Gender Violence of the Interterritorial Health Council Isabel Soriano has asked this Friday to establish “homogeneous guidelines” for action in all the autonomous communities in interventions in sexist violence.
Soriano made these statements to journalists before speaking in Logroño at the XIII National Conference on Gender Violence Updating, with an inaugural conference on “Advances and challenges in early detection and prevention of gender violence from health services” .
He has specified that one of the challenges of the National Health System is to achieve a homogeneous action, in addition to promoting protocols and training guides for health professionals in the face of the detection of sexist violence.
He has also asked that, from the framework of human rights, attention be recognized “not only of quality, but also of warmth.”
In the collection of samples with the victims, interventions must be carried out so that this action “does not revictimize” the situation in which that person finds himself and is provided with “the most exquisite treatment possible”, he has indicated.
On the other hand, Soriano has considered that the registration and information systems must be sufficiently reliable so that the group of professionals can register all possible data, in order to “develop policies that cover the reality that exists”.
Thus, after the entry into force of the Comprehensive Law on Sexual Freedom, known as only if it is yes, the clinical practice guidelines have been modified regarding the sample collection processes, both by physicians and forensic professionals.
multidisciplinary approach
These conferences, organized until this Saturday by the Interdisciplinary Center for Psychology and Health and the Spanish Academy of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, have counted at their inauguration with the president of the regional Executive, and with the Government delegate in La Rioja, Beatriz Arraiz.
In his speech, Andreu has stressed that, in La Rioja, “the fight against gender violence is a priority” and has defended “a multidisciplinary approach” to “attack a social problem from all fronts”.
He stressed that “the structures and automatisms of macho thinking that are manifested with gender violence are still deeply rooted in this society.”
The head of the La Riojan Executive recalled that, in Spain, the number of victims of sexist violence, as well as the complaints filed, increased again in 2022, by 10.7 percent and 11.8 percent respectively.
In addition, the number of minors prosecuted for this type of crime grew by 18.67%, “figures that are very worrying, because they demonstrate a dramatic reality, but also shed a point of light linked to the greater awareness that exists about this scourge”, he concluded.
1,197 murdered since 2003
For his part, Arraiz recalled that since January 2003 -the date on which records are available- 1,197 women have been murdered in Spain and, since 2013, 49 minors due to sexist violence.
So far this year, they have killed 13 women and a minor, and this week there has been the murder of an 81-year-old woman in Ávila, he lamented.
“Spain has been one of the first countries to provide a comprehensive response to violence against women. But we cannot let our guard down for a moment and continue working to achieve an equal, inclusive and fair society”, he added.
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