NewsWhore
07-12-2012, 03:00 PM
In what should be startling news, Sergia Galvan from the Women's Health Collective said that 65,000 women have complained of abuse in the first six months of the year. In a report in today's Hoy newspaper, Cynthia Abreu describes a demonstration held yesterday, Wednesday 11 July outside the National Congress where they met with resistance from police. The demonstration was organized as part of a "National Day of Mourning for Femicides," which according to the organizers total 108 so far this year.
Dressed in mourning, the women carried banners and signs and called for larger budgets for the Ministry of Women, Public Health and Education as well as all the agencies that deal with women's issues and complaints in the National Police and the Justice Department. The group managed to deliver their portfolio of requests to Deputy Magda Rodriguez, who chairs the Chamber of Deputies Gender Commission.
Sociologist Rosario Espinal told reporters that as the role of men in the society is diminished, their levels of aggression increase. One incident during the demonstration occurred when the women demonstrators began to remove temporary barriers that had been set up to block their access to the National Congress. The women began to remove them and the police tried to stop them. The barriers were only removed after the arrival of Deputy Minou Tavarez Mirabal, who told the police that "the barriers are not necessary, these women have come in peace to deliver a document."
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Dressed in mourning, the women carried banners and signs and called for larger budgets for the Ministry of Women, Public Health and Education as well as all the agencies that deal with women's issues and complaints in the National Police and the Justice Department. The group managed to deliver their portfolio of requests to Deputy Magda Rodriguez, who chairs the Chamber of Deputies Gender Commission.
Sociologist Rosario Espinal told reporters that as the role of men in the society is diminished, their levels of aggression increase. One incident during the demonstration occurred when the women demonstrators began to remove temporary barriers that had been set up to block their access to the National Congress. The women began to remove them and the police tried to stop them. The barriers were only removed after the arrival of Deputy Minou Tavarez Mirabal, who told the police that "the barriers are not necessary, these women have come in peace to deliver a document."
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