“We condemn all conduct associated with gender-based violence regardless of the space in which it is carried out, and we invite all institutions, public and private, to deploy preventive, sanctioning and reparative actions in these matters,” emphasized the Seremi de la Mujer y Gender Equality, Andrea Méndez Valenzuela.
Aysén.- The Ministry of Women and Gender Equality has been focused on providing responses to those problems that affect the lives of women, in their wide diversity, and that constitute important challenges in terms of the exercise of women’s rights. women and their economic autonomy.
In this sense, one of the prioritized problems has been gender-based violence, which is why, after seven years of processing, the Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate gender violence was passed. Regulations that, among other things, will allow: improving the supervision of precautionary measures, establishing a judicial supervision mechanism to guarantee their compliance and relevance, strengthening the role of legal representation of SernamEG in cases of femicides and femicidal suicides to arrive sooner and more quickly, incorporate children as victims and not only as witnesses of gender violence, in addition to having a comprehensive case management system to improve coordination between institutions, in order to avoid re-victimization.
In this same line and considering the latest cases publicly reported in the region associated with the activation of MALS protocols (Workplace and Sexual Abuse and Harassment) in two public departments, the Seremi de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género, Andrea Méndez Valenzuela, indicated: “We understand that violence against women permeates work spaces in different ways, causing profound damage to those who suffer from it, and consequently, we have established different initiatives aimed at reinforcing prevention, investigation and sanction mechanisms, which have been materialized in the so-called Karin Law”
Regarding the main changes that this regulation implies: “We highlight that in the new definition of workplace harassment, it considers the emergence of a single experience associated with aggression or harassment, as well as the requirement to develop protocols for the Prevention of Sexual, Workplace and Violence Harassment. at Work, that is, it invites the generation of strategies prior to the consummation of events that violate people’s rights,” the authority stated.
Regarding regional cases and the role that the portfolio has assumed: “We condemn all conduct associated with gender-based violence regardless of the space in which it occurs.”
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Regarding both cases, our service, SERNAMEG, has contacted both institutions to make our programmatic offer available to the complainants.”
Finally, it emphasizes that the responsibility of preventing and punishing violence against women in a dignified manner corresponds to a matter of State, and not the exclusive responsibility of the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality; Consequently, we must all improve all the necessary measures to advance work spaces free of violence.
