The crisis committee to study the rise in femicides has detected several crimes associated with precariousness
The Ministry of Equality wants victims of sexist violence who are at “high risk” and are at risk of social exclusion to have immediate access to the minimum vital and urgent income for housing.
Vulnerability and precariousness are the hidden face of some of the sexist crimes perpetrated in recent weeks: in some cases, the women who were murdered had to live with their abusers because they did not have the resources to access housing.
“Poverty also kills. (…) The economic vulnerability and precarious situation of some women forced them to live with their abusers because they could not have alternative housing that would have allowed them to have a way out of the situation of violence”, summed up the Secretary of State for Equality and Against Gender Violence, Ángela Rodríguez, at the press conference after the crisis committee was held, which analyzed the rise in femicides in January and also the last three murders from December.
The “very serious precariousness” is a “determining factor that must be taken into account by the institutions,” Rodríguez asserted.
Equality will propose to the autonomous communities at the next sectoral conference the “possibility” that State security forces and bodies and social services come into contact automatically in cases in which the victims are at high risk of being attacked and they are also at risk of social exclusion and thus expedite their access to both the minimum vital income and the basic insertion income and also to housing.
Rodríguez explained that the victims of gender violence are in the groups that should benefit from this aid, but it is not being achieved “quickly enough”.
Equality intends that women can have immediate access to them and that public administrations are the ones that promote it proactively, without the victims having to face complex procedures.
The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has stressed that the system must reach all victims without the need for them to go through “long bureaucratic procedures” or run into labyrinths to access their rights.
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The 016 attends to the victims of all forms of violence against women. It is a free and confidential phone that provides service in 53 languages and leaves no trace on the bill. Information is also provided via email. [email protected] and counseling and psychosocial care through the WhatsApp number 600 000 016. In addition, minors can contact the ANAR telephone number 900202010.
Victims of abuse who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or deafblind can call 016 with 900 116 016SVisual, ALBA, Telesor, ATENPRO and the PorMí app. All resources against gender violence.