Pedro Pierluisi declares state of emergency due to gender violence in Puerto Rico

Through multi-sectoral advertising, the governor Pedro Pierluisi decreed this domino a state of emergency due to the gender violence in Puerto Rico.

“All violence is reprehensible, and we do not fight against it. Gender violence is a social evil, based on ignorance and actions that can not be tolerated or tolerated in Puerto Rico. For the time being, kwesbaarhede victims have been satisfied with the consequences of systematic machismo, inequality, discrimination, lack of education, lack of guidance and all the lack of action. It is my duty and my compromise as governor to establish a couple to the violence of gender and ante these fines that he declared a state of emergency ”, supported by the governor in a press release.

In agreement with the first executive, the executive order designates a “Complementary Office, which responds to the governor, to be taxed, to follow up and monitor the implementation of the Order. In addition, the Committee on Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education of the Violence of Gender (PARE Committee) was created in which 17 members were appointed and increased the representation of the organizations dedicated to providing services and fighting against the violence of genera. This Committee shall be chaired by the Secretary of the Family, Carmen González Magazine, who holds a Master’s Master’s and Doctoral Degree from Carlos Albizu University, being his intern and doctoral thesis in Violence of Gender ”.

Asimismo, the governor ordered the creation of a mobile phone application that would help genocide violence victims to solicit emergency help while sending the message sent to protect the aggressor’s victim.

The order also establishes each agency in coordination with the Office of Genocide and Presupuesto (OGP) tend to identify internal, state and federal resources, externally available to complement the provisions of the Executive Order, and to be necessary, soliciting additional funds to manage the declared emergence.

The Prime Minister mandated energetically to justify the state of emergence could insist on the causes of violence against women and gender violence “Has allowed our society for a long time and tenemos to be proactive and effective at the time of combat as a repair to all the victims we did not protect”.

Pierluisi’s announcement surpasses the same day that La Fortaleza ordered various government agencies to cancel contracts with attorney Jerome Garffer, accused of violating gender.

According to official figures, Puerto Rico will close in 2020 with 6,170 reported domestic violence incidents and even women in their courtship. According to the Gender Equality Observatory, only 60 women have been cared for in the past, considering the crimes under investigation, which are subject to autopsy and transfeminism.