Gender Violence Project presented to the World Bank in Sydney and Dili by Yolanda Serrano - expert in Gender Violence and law in Spain - May 2013

1. It’s been

2. «Everyone has the right to life, liberty and
security of person»
Article 3
UN photo

4. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story

5. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender violence is not
a problem confined to
the private sphere
• Results & Statistics
• The Financial Crisis

6. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender violence is not
a problem confined to
the private sphere
• Results & Statistics
• The Financial Crisis

7. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender The kick off not
 violence is
a problem confined to
the private sphereout
 The wipe
• Results Renaissance
 & Statistics
• The Financial Crisis

8. The Kick Off
 The sex will not be a reason for
any privilege
 Right to be elected but not vote
 Divorce Law
 Legalization of abortion

9. The wipe out
 Age of majority for women was 25
y.o.
 The father tutelage finished when
the woman was married or she
entered a convent
 The husband was authorised to
beat the spouse and his sons and
daughters if he did not injure them
 From 1975, the wife is not under
any obligation to obey her husband

10. Renaissance
Equality Principle, Art. 14
Constitution 1978
Penalty of continuous maltreatment
and abuses 1989
The sexual harassment at work is
typified in 1995
The first time psychological abuse
becomes a crime 1999

11. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender violence is not
a problem confined to
the private sphere
• Results & Statistics
• The Financial Crisis

12. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender violence is not
a problem confined to
the private sphere
 & Integrated
• Results AnStatistics Law
 Main Changes
• The Financial Crisis
 Victims’ rights

13. An Integrated Law
 The Act extends its scope to
preventive, educational, social,
welfare and victim support initiatives
 The punitive response
 A Fund shall be established

14. Main changes
 Awareness measures
 Education system
 Health system
 Communication & Advertising
 Judicial measures
Administrative Bodies

15. Victims’ rights
 Right to integrated social
assistance
 Legal aid
 Labour rights
Economic rights & Support
 Information resources &
telematics control

16. Victims’ rights
Integrated Social Assistance
 Information to victims
 Psychological assistance
 Social assistance
 Monitoring of women's rights claims
 Educational support to the family unit
 Support to employment training and
insertion

17. Victims’ rights
Legal Aid
 All victims of gender violence have
the right to:
Be defended and represented by a
lawyer or Court Representative.

18. Victims’ rights
Labour rights
 Reduction or re-organisation of
their working hours
 Geographical mobility
 Change of workplace
 Suspension of employment with
their post reserved, and
 Termination of their employment
contract under legal situation of
unemployment

19. Victims’ rights
Economic rights & Support
 Social Aid: Lump-Sum benefit
Housing resources
 Emergency Centres
 Shelter Centres
 Protected apartment
 R.A.I Insertion Income

20. Victims’ rights
Information Resources &
Telematic Control
W.R.A.P: (Web Support Resources
and Prevention against GV)
016 HELP LINE
TELE ASSISTANCE SERVICES
 Atenpro
 Wrist bands or electronic devices

21. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender violence is not
a problem confined to
the private sphere
• Results & Statistics
• The Financial Crisis

22. Results & Statistics

23. Results & Statistics

24. Results & Statistics
Number of deaths
Until 20th Feb./
/ All year

25. Gender Violence
The “Spanish” side of the story
• Historical background
• Gender violence is not
a problem confined to
the private sphere
• Results & Statistics
• The Financial Crisis

26. The Financial Crisis
General Impacts
 Reduction about 24, 1% in
equality (18.95 million of Euros)
 Prevention of gender violence
reduction 6.8% (22, 20 millions
of Euros)

27. The Financial Crisis
The consequences go beyond
the victim...
 Reduction 70% advertising campaigns
 Reducing number of lawyers in legal
aid & denial protection orders
 Reduced budgets in care devices

28. The Financial Crisis
The consequences go beyond
the victim...
Reduction in education, healthy,
therefore staff training for education,
health
 Salaries reduction
 Labour market precariousness
 Impossibility of independence

30. More 74% the mortal victims do not make a complaint. In
Spain out of every ten women killed by their partner between
seven and eight had not reported them.

31. Gender Violence
Article 5
Universal Human Rights Constitution
“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”

32. Thank you
Presenter
Yolanda Serrano-Montaño
Lawyer - yolandaserrano@live.com
Technical cooperation & media advisor
Inês P. G. A. Pinto