Amnesty International

October 16th, 2013

According to the aforementioned NGOs, the number of immigrant women murdered by their partners or ex-partners is six times higher than that of the Spanish. When the report was completed by Amnesty International, had been killed 65 women, of which 24 were emigrants. And in subsequent weeks, until November 28, died violently 14 women more, of which 5 were emigrants. According to the Council General of the judiciary of Spain, in 2006, in one case out of four women killed by violence, macho, victim and aggressor were immigrants. The significance of the increase of female immigrants as victims of gender-based violence, is due perhaps to men who migrate as couples, boyfriends or husbands are more sexist than the indigenous of the country? That conviction probably form part of undocumented beliefs, but without discarding it (there is the Declaration of the President of Mexico), it investigated is that women immigrants, by far, are more vulnerable, and that the decrease of female immigrants as victims of violence against women has come because they have greater access to information, to knowledge of entities that support them and can help, the best available to officials of the State support and helps immigrant women at risk of violence against women is not graceful concession but by recognition of the rights which havein your country, here or where they are. And in terms of possible specific machismo of his executioners, as elsewhere, of other cultures and traditions, let clear, against traditions and cultures, they prevail without discussion human rights, whose universal declaration, incidentally, has been signed and ratified by the majority of States in the world.

And that is not wet paper or empty rhetoric. Because human rights are not proprietary or ownership of any culture or nation. These include the right to life, the right to integrity and the right not to suffer ill-treatment and not to be tortured. That is precisely what We are writing.

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