DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
Salomé García Bacallao

HOST:
Marta María Ramírez


Synopsis:

Gender-based violence in Cuba is sustained not only by the patriarchal imaginary but by the absence of specific and transversal legislation to prevent it, confront it and punish it.

While the underreporting of femicides grows, the state criminalizing independent collectives of women and negating the access of whole swathes of the population to confirm them, while silencing women who denounce different forms of gender-based violence, such as child sexual abuse, kidnapping of underage girls and political violence with evident gender bias. It denies the possibility of refuges for women in situations of violence and turns a deaf ear to the campaign to prohibit child marriage, legally permitted on the island.

Cuban legislators say that women will have to wait until 2028 for the integral legislation demanded in 2019 by 40 Cuban women in parliament, despite the international commitments endorsed with the new constitution. Feminists say #2028EstáMuyLejos (“2028 is too long”), and demand zero complicity of the Cuban state.

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Sexist Violence in Cuba. the State´s Complicity

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