The Ombudsman has called for combating "the transformation of women and girls and the commercialization of things"
In an institutional declaration issued this Tuesday on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Office of the Ombudsman of the Basque Country has denounced that male violence "continues to take the lives of the unburned every year" and "attacks the physical and moral integrity and dignity of women directly affected by this violence".
The Ombudsman endorses the request of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, and calls for combating "the conversion of women and girls into objects and commercialization".
This Tuesday, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Ombudsman has included in an institutional declaration the words of the UN rapporteur, who has also stressed the need to reaffirm the dignity of women and to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
The Basque Ombudsman's Office has denounced that male violence "continues to take the lives of innocent people every year" and "violates the physical and moral integrity and dignity of women directly affected by this violence".
But also, as the statement goes on, male violence "causes a deep moral wound in all women that places them in the symbolic space of insecurity simply because they are women."
Combating this type of violence, added the Ararteko, is the task of society as a whole and institutions, and the latter in particular are urged "to act properly, not to neglect women in their role of protecting and caring for them, and to act firmly against male aggression".
The fight against male abuse also implies "the need for women to give another meaning to the symbolic space they occupy on the basis of their sex, whatever they may be." In the note, the Ararteko specifies that "the empowerment of women, by creating safe spaces for all women and girls against violent machismo, implies the recognition of their right to occupy their own place in the world, ensuring the protection of their equality and dignity."
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