Igualdad de género hoy para un mañana sostenible

Con motivo del Día Internacional de las Mujeres, el Ararteko quiere llamar la atención, este año, sobre la importancia de superar los estereotipos de género, que someten a las mujeres a roles predeterminados conforme a criterios sexistas y propician su discriminación.

Los sesgos de género, los estereotipos sexistas, se expresan en todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida (relaciones, deportes, fiestas, cultura, economía, trabajo, ocio, política, ciencia¿) e impactan especialmente sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres y niñas, sometidos a una auténtica presión social para ajustarse a unos cánones artificiales que los cosifica. Estos estereotipos sexistas perjudican, sin duda, especialmente a las mujeres y niñas, sometiéndolas a una enorme e injusta exigencia social para que cumplan con los cánones preestablecidos, atribuyéndoles, además, inexorablemente roles de sometimiento o de menor valor social. Pero, además, constriñen también la libertad de los niños y hombres para desarrollarse ampliamente como personas, en toda la riqueza que nuestra condición humana nos brinda. La superación de estos estereotipos, dañinos para mujeres y hombres, niñas y niños, forma parte del camino hacia la igualdad, que persigue lograr un mundo inclusivo y libre de sexismo y discriminación.

El Ararteko tiene la convicción de que los compromisos por la igualdad de mujeres y hombres que seamos capaces de asumir hoy determinarán la sostenibilidad social de nuestro futuro. Consiguientemente, se suma en ese sentido al mensaje de Naciones Unidas para este 8 de marzo, que proclama la igualdad de hoy para un mañana sostenible. Por ello, considera de especial relevancia el compromiso social y político que para Euskadi se materializará con la reciente aprobación por el Parlamento Vasco de la segunda modificación de la Ley vasca de Igualdad de Mujeres y Hombres. Se trata de una ley que sentará las bases para dotarnos de mejores herramientas capaces de dar respuesta a las demandas contemporáneas de las mujeres y a los nuevos desafíos que, en general, plantea la igualdad de género para nuestra sociedad vasca. Su efectiva aplicación permitirá avanzar de modo que, entre todos y todas, podamos forjar una sociedad justa e igualitaria para todas las personas.

“Ahead of International Women’s Day, my sympathy and profound solidarity go to Ukrainian women and girls who are caught up in a war waged with total disregard for human life and dignity. I pay my deepest respects to those of them who have been killed, and my thoughts are with those who have been injured,” said today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović.

“Over the last two days I had the privilege to meet with many courageous Ukrainian women and girls who were able to escape the hostilities and seek safety after being forced to spend many terrifying nights in air-raid shelters with their children and relatives. I was extremely heartened by their resilience in the face of those harrowing experiences and by their unfailing hope,” added Commissioner Mijatović who is currently on a mission to the Republic of Moldova.

“Women feel first-hand the devastating impact that war has on their families and their communities. Amidst the fighting and violence surrounding them, Ukrainian women have been taking care of their families and neighbours, with many of them having travelled over long distances to bring their children and their friends’ children to safety. They also continue to work under bombardment and indiscriminate shelling as doctors, nurses and other professionals providing essential services to their communities. Women human rights defenders, journalists, civil society activists and volunteers work tirelessly towards re-establishing peace and protecting the values for which the Council of Europe stands. I salute their determination, strength, and courage.

I call on all Council of Europe member states to do their utmost to bring about peace and to ensure that humanitarian support effectively reaches all areas where it is most urgently needed, both inside Ukraine and in countries of arrival. Europe must today hear and heed Ukrainian women and girls’ resolute calls  for action to protect peace and human dignity.”

Russia's military attack against Ukraine has lasted for almost 12 days now, causing death and destruction. It is also leading to a large-scale repression of freedoms in the Russian Federation.

Since the war began, more than 13 000 people, including children and elderly people, have been arrested in dozens of Russian cities for the exercise of their legitimate right to protest peacefully against it, with more than 5 000 individuals, including journalists and human rights defenders, like Oleg Orlov and Svetlana Gannushkina, arrested yesterday. Many reported police violence, forceful collection of personal data, intimidation and reprisals, including threats of criminal prosecution and dismissal from their places of work or study for expressing their opposition to the war.

Dozens of independent and foreign media outlets have been subjected to censorship by either being banned, blocked or forced to delete any information that does not come from official sources. While some media outlets decided to stop reporting about Russia’s military attack against Ukraine, others, including the independent TV channel “Dozhd” and the oldest Russian independent radio station “Echo of Moscow”, decided to stop broadcasting altogether.

The Russian parliament has rushed to adopt several draconian provisions criminalising the spread of “fake information” about the acts of the Russian army, its “discreditation”, and calls for public protests, with sanctions of up to 15 years in prison and hefty fines – leaving no space for free speech and opinion on the war.

Immediately after the adoption on 4 March of these legislative provisions, the law enforcement authorities started implementing them vigorously against ordinary people, activists, journalists, human rights defenders and civil society groups all over the country, sanctioning any form of disagreement with official discourse. Some human rights NGOs, like Memorial and Civil Assistance Committee, “Pskovskaya Gubernia” newspaper and a number of human rights defenders – who have spoken out against the war - have been subjected to unjustified raids and searches without respect for basic legal safeguards. This has a huge and continuous chilling effect on the human rights situation in the country, prompting hundreds of journalists, human rights defenders and civil society activists to seek refuge abroad.

The Russian authorities hold the key to stopping the suffering of millions of people that their attack on Ukraine has unleashed and I urged them to stop the war immediately. I also urge them to end the internal repression against human rights defenders, journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens who oppose the war and to fully respect their human rights including freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association in line with the international and European human rights obligations by which Russia is bound.

The Association of Mediterranean Ombudsman (AOM), of which the Human Rights Ombudsman of the republic of Slovenia is also a member, expresses its deep concern about the suffering caused by the war in Ukraine and asks all parties involved to take immediate  action to safeguard in an effective and comprehensive way the fundamental rights of the civilian population.

AOM offers its full support to the efforts of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner of Human rights to offer relief and protection to the victims of this tragedy.

We also express our appreciation for the work that colleagues in the neighbouring countries have undertaken, with a view to ensuring that fundamental rights are respected and essential services to those displaced are made available.

With respect, in particular, to the thousands of refugees and displaced civilians, we ask all our members to exert all their influence to their respective national authorities in order to establish safe corridors and centers or reception offering accommodation, meals clothing and access to health services and medicines to all those who had to leave their homes.

We strongly recommend that arrangements be put immediately in place, so that families separated are reunited as soon as possible.

We call upon the Human Rights Commissioners of Ukraine and Russia to ensure that international law and standards are upheld for the treatment of all those in need, the homeless, the disabled, children, the elderly, civilians but also combatants who are imprisoned or detained.

As ombudsmen in the Mediterranean basin, we strongly and unequivocally declare our commitment to international legality, the rule of law and democracy, for the prosperity of all nations of the region.
 

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