Coinciding with the day of elimination of violence against women Generalitat decided to reward institutions and individuals fighting against this scourge and was awarded five awards within the framework of a corporate event. distinctions: an organization working on the integration of women in prostitution (Apramp), Mutua Madrileña Foundation and Antena 3 News For the “zero tolerance against abuse” campaign eleven,’eat Anar Foundationfor their efforts to provide telephone assistance to at-risk minors and magistrate José María Gómez VilloraIn 2005, she was the first Gender-Based Violence judge in Valencia, when these departments specializing in violence against women were officially established.
There is nothing to object to the work and merits of the winners. Of course, neither is the initiative of what happens. Premiere of the Generalitat and the current PP-VOX Council In terms of public recognition of the struggle of every person from their field to confront this epidemic.
On January 1, 2000, a pilot experiment of the current judicial response to sexist violence began in the state.
A plague that has claimed lives so far this year More than fifty women: 54 if this terrible figure does not increase from the time these lines were written to the time of its publication. We should not forget the many other young children killed in the area, known only from 2015 until today. indirect violenceIt’s more brutal, if possible, due to the extreme vulnerability of the victims, but it’s framed with the same irrationality of sexist crimes.
These distinctions are needed if what is sought is community zone Given the trajectories in this struggle, it would not be amiss to look south to confirm that Alicante was the site of the attack. germ Five years later, in 2005,courts specialized in violence against women These were later created throughout the country until there are now more than a hundred.
It was enough to open the focus beyond the subject. Mascara to verify that December 1, 1999 when that General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) In Alicante, it was decided to establish the first courts with exclusive jurisdiction over what was then called domestic abuse or domestic violence.
Or, with the initiative and insistence of that time, by consulting the newspaper archive to remember this. Vicente Magro, president of the Court of Alicante and today a judge of the Supreme CourtIt was decided that three courts in the province would operate. Alicante, Elche and Orihuela, They were the first people in the country to specifically undertake education on this subject. A pilot experience whose excellent results were the starting signal for the courts specializing in gender-based violence as we know today, without which the judicial response to this drama would be incomprehensible.
On December 29, 1999, the BOE published the agreement, and three days later, on January 1, 2000, Judge Manrique Tejada He presided over the first court of the new specialization in the Alicante jurisdiction.
volunteers
Those who lived through those moments remember how Magro asked. volunteers piloting an initiative that surprised even some judges (at the time, victims of gender-based violence were not counted as such and their registration would not begin until three years later). Judge Tejada, now retired, did not hesitate to raise his hand. Volunteering, knowing that resourcing based on expected job growth would not accompany it, was.
This shortcoming was more than made up for by the professionalism and courage of all the staff on site 5. “Undoubtedly the best in Alicante”, according to another hero of this success: prosecutor Ángel Alcázar, He also offered to take responsibility from the Public Ministry, an example of pure will, for an issue that he would not give up until he retired as deputy prosecutor after 18 years.
Women Lawyers Group
Alicante Women Lawyers Group also devotedly joined the team and free office shift, They joined 24 hours a day those who dared to go to court to report the ordeal that many people had been going through for years in those years. They gave them advice, even found them where to stay because at that time it was the woman and the woman who left the house. restraining orders were virtually non-existent», remember those who helped this embryo grow.
Legal experts with decades of work behind them in the fight against gender-based violence describe the Generalitat’s “forgetfulness” “Lack of knowledge, poor memory, lack of interest or newcomers.”
Discomfort
«I care about what we do, what we work for and what we help implement. One of them sums up the general sentiment by saying, “Ignorance and rewards don’t matter to me.” But the discomfort is there.
Because they also remember that he was in Alicante on Magro’s initiative. first retraining programs An office that has operated for several years to assist victims of gender violence contained in the Criminal Code and also in the Court.
from Equality Department who rules the popular Susana Camarero, As proponents of the award idea, they limit themselves to stating that “personal and professional careers are valued in the fight against violence against women.”
Created by five people jury A decision announced simultaneously with the presentation of the awards: Asunción Quinzá, regional secretary for Equality and Diversity; Felipe del Baño, commissioner for combating violence against women; Miguel Bailach, member of the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP); and representatives of the councils of Alicante, Valencia and Castellón Loreto Serrano (mayor of Santa Pola), Natalia Enguix and Main Portal, respectively.
Meanwhile, Magro, who has been a member of the CGPJ Observatory on Domestic and Gender-Based Violence since 2002, as well as being an undoubted supporter of everyone involved in this achievement, recently received an award. recognition For their commitment to equality and their contribution to the protection of victims of gender-based violence. Of course, Balearic Islands.