translated from Spanish: Violence against women in covid-19 confinement

Escuinapa.- The Municipal Institute of Women has recorded an increase in cases of violence against squat women during the stage of confinement by the coronavirus pandemic, with psychological, physical and sexual violence prevailing. Janida Janeth Viera Zamora, director of the Municipal Institute of Women commented that in the face of the arrival of the health emergency by coronavirus in Escuinapa and the need to stay at home to avoid covid-19 contagion, she generated that remaining in close poverty violence against squacan women increased, tripling the cases that occurred in previous months.
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Based on the confinement by covid-19 in the municipality we have had an increase in statistics in the attention to our users that we have in the institute and we see the need to continue promoting the services of the Immujer, so that remember the women that we are available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, mentioned the municipal official.

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He specified that the Immujer provides free psychological, legal and social work care to women victims of violence and has a record of previous months of 5 to 8 cases, but since the beginning of confinement for covid-19 was greatly increased, keeping them on alert and in search of strategies to support this vulnerable sector of society.  “We have precisely 25 new cases from the confinement generated by the covid-19 pandemic, which triples the cases, since in previous months the figure was 5 to 8 attentions per month. This situation alarms us, although we had it planned, since it is a situation that could be recorded by having the aggressor at home in these times of shelter for this health emergency, the violence was increasing and so happened in our municipality”, lamented Viera Zamora.He said that the level of violence that is exerted inside the homes against the women has been the psychological , physical and sexual.

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The violence that the women who are suffering in this confinement has predominated the psychological in which has recorded an uptick, the physics is very noticeable, without leaving for less the sexual one, are the three aggressions that have suffered the most inside their homes, the women of our municipality, specified.

Viera Zamora said the Municipal Women’s Institute has provided support to these women victims of violence in legal and psychological counseling, has not been channeled to any of the shelters, but they always keep an eye on and monitor each case.
Telling women suffering from violence that they are fully supported by authority, our president is always very concerned about the squa0n families, mainly women and children, is always giving us the indication and the push for us to move forward, he said.

During Wednesday and Thursday the Immujer staff performed the periphono in most of the colonies in the municipal head, posters were placed with the telephone numbers to which they can communicate in case of any physical aggression and require support.  The director of the Immujer called for the squats who, in case of any signs of violence, may approach the offices inside the municipal palace or call the emergency telephones 911 or 95-3-00-18 of the Municipal Police or those of the Institute 695-109-58-42, 695-109-00-20 and 695-104-44-65, legal, psychological and social work counseling services are completely free , as well as whether they find themselves in need of seeking shelter as their integrity and that of their children are at risk.



Original source in Spanish

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