{"id":209624,"date":"2019-11-22T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=209624"},"modified":"2019-11-22T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:15:53","slug":"cuban-women-request-from-parliament-integral-law-against-gender-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-women-request-from-parliament-integral-law-against-gender-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban women request from Parliament Integral Law against Gender Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, 40 Cuban women have exercised their citizen right by submitting a request for a Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence to the National Assembly of People\u2019s Power (ANPP).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Office of Attention to the Population of the Assembly received a formal document signed by them, detailing why a specific Law on Gender Violence is necessary, what that Law would be and what specifically is requested of the Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Article 2 of the ANPP Regulations endorses that this body \u201crepresents and expresses the sovereign will of the entire people\u201d and that it is the only one \u201cwith constitutional and legislative power in the Republic,\u201d the signatories of the text recalled. In addition, article 61 of the new Constitution affirms that \u201cpeople have the right to address complaints and requests to the authorities, which are obliged to process them and provide timely and relevant responses.\u201d With this endorsement, the request calls for a legislative initiative on an issue considered vital in the final document of the National Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba (2012).<\/span><\/p>\n

During 2019 there have been three political-institutional gestures that the signatories assure are part of the recognition of gender violence in the country and the new dimensions of its scope.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the new <\/span>Constitution of the Republic<\/span><\/a> included, in its article 43, the obligation of the State to protect women from gender-based violence and create the institutional and legal mechanisms for this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly, <\/span>national figures on gender-based violence<\/span><\/a> were released, which show that it is a considerable problem and that national rates are comparable with those of other regions of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, <\/span>in 2019 Cuba presented its First National Report on the Implementation of Agenda 2030<\/span><\/a> that included the first official public data on femicides in the country. In this way, the existence of these specific crimes was recognized.<\/span><\/p>\n

What happened in 2019 is added to the work done for three decades through official institutions, NGOs, local projects and citizen activism.<\/span><\/p>\n

The document recalls that in 1999 the UN special rapporteur on violence against women urged the adoption of special legislation to address violence in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was femicide, and that matters<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n