A problem in the Ica region is that many women are taken to jails just for the fact of defending themselves of gender violence, said Rosario Huayanca, a communicator from Codeh-Ica, on La Mula TV.
In a special edition of ‘Al Filo’ for International Women’s Day, Huayanca recounted that, in the monitoring that Codeh-Ica does with the Women’s Emergency Centers, a behavior of prosecutors when dealing with complaints of gender violence.
“We have women prosecutors who are not understanding the dimension of the problem. And they are under the pretext of the shared responsibility established by law since both men and women have been affected, They also take women to jail for the mere fact of defending themselves product of the fact that the man was going to violate them. They don’t understand that it was a defense because the man shows that they scratched him, that they bit him,” she said in an interview with Javier Torres.
“But when one narrates, listens or looks at the record, the testimony, one wonders: what kind of prosecutors do we have? And there even the Police, if we have to rescue, do their best on the record. There are many problems in filling out the minutes, it is a historical problem, but progress has been made on it; However, it is the prosecutors who have to bring this issue into the protection system,” he added.
Regarding gender violence in the Ica region, Huayanca pointed out that the Salas district, where there is greater participation of agro-export workers is the area with the highest number of cases of violence family, femicides and attempted feminicides. In this sense, she said that due to the management of social organizations, a Women’s Emergency Center will be installed that will allow women from the more than 50 human settlements in the area to receive care.
On the other hand, he expressed his concern because for two years the cases of missing girls and adolescents have increased, many of them between 11 and 14 years old, without any explanation.
“The peculiarity of this is that they are of precarious homes, in some cases agricultural export workers. We must also pay attention to this problem as a State policy. And the other is sexual harassment and workplace harassment, one in the farms and the other as a common denominator in society. These are the big problems within what is gender violence,” he said.
Lastly, Huayanca highlighted the importance of gender alternation, which has allowed the number of women authorities to be increased. In this sense, he pointed out that there is a “great responsibility” to implement preventive measures against political, labor and sexual harassment, which is great in the Ica region.
In this special edition of ‘Al Filo’ for 8M, Rosario Huayanca (Ica), Rosmery Roca (Cusco) and Miriham Escalante (Puno) were present.
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