Awareness-raising workshop on gender-based violence at SELA

The Civil Association Tinta Violeta conducted an Awareness Raising Workshop on Gender Violence to the staff of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) in order to make some headway in gender mainstreaming in the regional development of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Gender-based violence continues to affect thousands of women and girls every year in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2020, more than 4,000 women were victims of feminicide. Hence the need to raise awareness of gender-based violence as a scourge that must be overcome in order to move towards inclusion, equity and sustainable development in the region.

Daniella Inojosa, founder and general coordinator of Tinta Violeta, detailed the types of violence, the difference between Feminicide and Femicide, as well as the circle of power of gender violence.  Inojosa explained the importance of knowing the types of violence, which are assumed “to exercise power over another person.” Physical and psychological violence, sexual violence, obstetric, institutional, economic, media, symbolic and vicarious violence. She also detailed the wheel of power and control, which becomes a circle from which the victim ends up being intimidated, threatened and isolated, under the total control of her perpetrator.

Overcoming violence against women to guarantee equity is a way to move towards integration. That is why the gender approach is part of SELA's multi-year Work Programme to consolidate the inclusion of women in the sustainable development of the region.