Family Violence in Peru Magaly Oliveira: Hello my beautiful friends, I share this information with domestic violence in our Peru.
family violence, and in general all forms of violence against women is a widespread problem in Peru. According to a WHO study in 2002, ten countries in the world, Peru was the most violent against women. Of the twenty cities surveyed Cusco is the most violent with 69% of women raped at least once in their life and Villa el Salvador's fourth, with 51% of battered women.
Physical, sexual and / or psychological is not only a negative impact on the health of those affected directly and indirectly, but also a serious public safety problem, it puts at risk the integrity, security and life women subjected to it. The absence of adequate mechanisms to curb this form of violence, conflicts also the right of women and children access to a swift and speedy justice. Reversing this situation requires urgent attention of the authorities and should be taken as the first important engagement the next government.
To understand the violent logic of so many compatriots, the Legal Defense Institute invited last night to Dr. Miguel Ramos Padilla, a professor at the School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia to present his work "Masculinity and Marital Violence. life experiences of men from the popular sectors of Lima and Cusco. " The Institute also asked to answer the following question:
What should be the priority of the next government measures to curb soaring rates of physical, sexual and emotional Peruvian men engaged in their relationships?
The presentation was commented Gina Yanez, director of Movimiento Manuela Ramos and the PNP Captain Carmen Aponte, Commissioner of Women in Villa El Salvador. Also attended by the President of the Family Court of the Superior Court of Lima, representatives of the Attorney General and the Ministers of Education, Health and Interior and the Director General of the National Police and representatives of women's organizations.
context for Miguel Ramos social and family of the perpetrators have an important role. However, the use of violence not only depends on learned behaviors, but part of our construction of masculinity in which the man's identity is based on their feeling of superiority over women and their right to subjugate and dominate. According to this paradigm of masculinity, essentially patriarchal and sexist, the use of violence is legitimate to ensure the dominant position of men in the relationship, especially when that position is threatened. Magaly oliveira