Canary Islands and Domestic Violence

Another social disgrace is that violence against women continues unabated in the Canary Islands, which, as in previous years lead the national statistics in the percentage of cases reported in relation to the population figures. The islands come second in the number of cases and would probably come top in this too, but we know that not all cases are reported.

In the Canary Islands, 5.58 cases per 1000 women were reported in 2005. The Balearics are already far from this figure, with 3.47 reports per thousand inhabitants and the lowest, Aragon with 1.22 cases per thousand.

The situation was addressed by the government with the new law against Violencia de Género, which left nobody indifferent to the problem and gave special protection to women victims. Nevertheless, around seven cases of domestic violence are reported every hour and more than five women are assassinated on average each month.

Maybe the Canarian population in particular should be reminded of their Guanche roots, under whose political system, "... women appear to have been respected, an insult offered any woman by an armed man being a capital offence."

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