Argentina: Salta Province Extends Social Emergency Due to Gender-Based Violence
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September 11, 2024 Hour: 12:07 pm
In Salta, 59 percent of women experienced psychological violence and 34 percent suffered physical violence.
On Tuesday, the Chamber of Deputies of the province of Salta extended the “Law of Social Emergency Due to Gender Violence” for two more years given the alarming number of cases of female victims.
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The extension of this law allows the Provincial government to have the necessary budgetary allocations to “finish outlining public policy,” said Monica Juarez, a legislator from Salta. She requested the extension of the law indicating that Salta still has a Secretariat of Women, Genders and Diversity, despite the fact that President Javier Milei eliminated the Ministry of Women.
Over the last decade, the Social Emergency Law has been extended on several occasions due to the high figures of gender violence. In Salta 62 percent of women have experienced some type of gender violence by their partner or ex-partner. At the national level, however, that percentage does not exceed 45 percent.
In Salta, 59 percent of women experienced psychological violence, 34 percent experienced physical violence, 34 percent experienced economic violence, and 27 percent suffered sexual violence. The highest rates of gender violence occur in the 18 to 29 age group, in which the prevalence reaches 66 percent.
In addition, 35.4 percent of those who experienced violence went to a family member or neighbor, a lower proportion than the national average, which means that women from Salta “do not always go out to seek help,” said Juarez.
“No legislator likes having to extend the Social Emergency law,” acknowledged Juarez, who is president of the commission on Women, Gender, Diversity, Girls, Boys, Adolescents and Family, indicating that gender violence is transversal, because it affects women of all social classes and ages.
In Salta, 129 deaths were recorded due to feminicides, transfeminicides, transvesticides and hate crimes between 2016 and 2023, according to a report by the General Secretariat of the Salta Government.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE
