Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 4:47:21 GMT
The Ministers of Equality, Irene Montero, and of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, propose reforming the Penal Code so that in cases of gender violence, threats or damage to the victims' pets are included as aggravating factors and that the abusers are not stay with them if precautionary measures are decreed. Both ministers presented this Monday the conclusions of the first year of activity of the VioPet project , which reveal that one in two abused women who have a pet does not file a complaint or does not leave the home where she suffers sexist violence for fear of reprisals against her parents.
The VioPet program shelters the pets of female victims in volunteer homes and was launched in March of last year. The data shows that around 30 percent of women victims of gender violence have a pet in their care. According to the ministers, the VioPet project has already assisted some 500 victims and has provided a temporary Australia Phone Number shelter to pets of abused women. The network of shelters has 800 volunteer families who, selflessly, take care of these animals until they can be returned to the victim with full guarantees. The Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, has announced that she will propose, together with Montero, a modification of the Penal Code so that threats or damage to the pets of victims of sexist violence are included as an aggravating circumstance.
Likewise, they will urge that preventive confiscation be introduced so that animals do not have to remain in the care of the abuser in cases of gender violence in which precautionary measures are decreed. Belarra has stressed that this program faces a "specificity" of sexist violence, as well as a form of animal abuse. "It transmits a correct message to society," she remarked. For her part, Montero has pointed out that VioPet aims to overcome "one of the obstacles" that battered women face. Furthermore, he explained that good treatment must be the basis of a democratic society, so the proper treatment of animals "speaks well of the country we are.
The VioPet program shelters the pets of female victims in volunteer homes and was launched in March of last year. The data shows that around 30 percent of women victims of gender violence have a pet in their care. According to the ministers, the VioPet project has already assisted some 500 victims and has provided a temporary Australia Phone Number shelter to pets of abused women. The network of shelters has 800 volunteer families who, selflessly, take care of these animals until they can be returned to the victim with full guarantees. The Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, has announced that she will propose, together with Montero, a modification of the Penal Code so that threats or damage to the pets of victims of sexist violence are included as an aggravating circumstance.
Likewise, they will urge that preventive confiscation be introduced so that animals do not have to remain in the care of the abuser in cases of gender violence in which precautionary measures are decreed. Belarra has stressed that this program faces a "specificity" of sexist violence, as well as a form of animal abuse. "It transmits a correct message to society," she remarked. For her part, Montero has pointed out that VioPet aims to overcome "one of the obstacles" that battered women face. Furthermore, he explained that good treatment must be the basis of a democratic society, so the proper treatment of animals "speaks well of the country we are.