Patriarchal Reaction against Advances in Sexist Violence

Abstract

Violence against women is a widespread violation of human rights, and, in large part, unpunished worldwide. When it seemed that there was a consensus in the approach to sexist violence, we are currently facing a threat of regression, which attempts to question even the concept agreed by the United Nations (1979), WHO (2002), the Istanbul Convention (2011) and Organic Law 1/2004, of December 28, on Comprehensive Protection Measures against gender violence in the case of the Spanish State. This Article is a reflection, based on the idea that democratic societies have an obligation to shield the defense of women’s rights, and face the lies of the denial ideologies of gender violence of the extreme right, which are unpunished. around the world. We believe that —attacking measures against gender violence and the progress of feminist movements— we are attacking more than half of the world’s population. And that is sexist violence and destruction of human rights. Therefore, Feminism is the best tool to fight the setbacks that the extreme right intends to impose.