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99.3% of domestic violence cases remain unpunished in Bolivia due to rejection, abandonment or dismissal of the complaints, warned activists who demonstrated on Tuesday against the reform of the law against gender violence proposed by pro-government senators who consider that this law is \u201canti-men\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Network against Violence against Women in Cochabamba, which brings together 22 institutions, included this information in a statement rejecting the proposal of a group of senators of the governmental Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to reform the \u201cIntegral Law to Guarantee Women a Life Free of Violence\u201d, or Law 348.<\/p>\n
\u201c99.3% of the processes for domestic violence remain in impunity due to rejections, abandonments and dismissals. So, when there is an impunity of that size, can we continue to maintain that Law 348 is anti-male?\u201d, the network questioned.<\/p>\n
The collective pointed out that \u201cin only seven days, seven Bolivian women have been murdered by their husbands, boyfriends, ex-partners, children and neighbors\u201d, after the president of the Senate, the pro-government Andr\u00f3nico Rodr\u00edguez, said that Law 348 is \u201canti-men\u201d and that it \u201chas destroyed families\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was as if his words were encouraging the violent to perpetrate a wave of femicides, or as if the same patriarchal system, which still reigns in Bolivia, were showing him how wrong he is,\u201d the activists pointed out.<\/p>\n
The network argued that \u201cthe real destroyers of families are violence and femicide,\u201d and not the law, and that this can be proven by asking about the violence experienced by the 1,080 children and adolescents who have been orphaned by femicide since the 2013 approval of the norm.<\/p>\n
He also defended that the law \u201cis not anti-men, but anti-violence\u201d and that it only leads violent people to prison in cases of femicide, attempted femicide or very serious injuries.<\/p>\n
With data from Fundaci\u00f3n Construir, the collective argued that only 0.7% of domestic violence cases reach a sentence and that this percentage of those sentenced do not go to prison, \u201cbut serve alternative disciplinary sanctions such as weekend arrest, a fine or symbolic community work\u201d.<\/p>\n
She also ratified the constant claim of several feminist organizations that the law is not fully complied with due to lack of budget and human resources, \u201cdespite the fact that violence is the most denounced crime in Bolivia\u201d.<\/p>\n
The activists considered that pretending to \u201cbelittle or downplay the value of the victim’s testimony in cases of domestic and sexual violence\u201d represents a \u201chuge setback in the little progress\u201d achieved by the country with respect to revictimization.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of modifying Law 348 and presuming that all women lie, we must improve the justice system so that there is no manipulation of this or any other law,\u201d they said, and demanded that Rodriguez \u201cretract his statements\u201d and \u201censure full compliance\u201d with the law.<\/p>\n
Last week, the government of Luis Arce asked the legislature to avoid \u201csetbacks\u201d in the progress achieved with the application of the law and considered that a reform of the law \u201cshould be to move forward and not to evade justice\u201d through impunity.<\/p>\n
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