La Paz, July 19 (EFE) . – The Bolivian presented on Tuesday a bill aimed at strengthening a 2013 law on violence against women, whose comprehensive implementation is a constant call of social organizations.
The document presented through the social leader Flora Aguilar to President Luis Arce in a rite in Government House in the presence of ministers, parliamentarians, former authorities, officials and representatives of industrial unions and social and feminist organizations.
The Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, and the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, separately, insisted that the task was carried out with a wide participation of various sectors, with more than 1,000 proposals to Law 348, the comprehensive law that makes certain women a life free of violence.
Arce highlighted some of the measures taken through his Government, such as the status quo of a commission that has tested instances in which people convicted of femicide and infanticide have been released, and the recent approval of a law that establishes sanctions against judicial officials who in no way favor the accused of these crimes.
“We are moving forward, but we know that we lack many steps and we think that today we are taking one of the maximum vital steps, because we have earned this bill from the hands of you who as women’s social organizations, we have participated in the more than a thousand proposals that have come to us,” she said.
According to Arce, when the new law is enacted, “a State formula for women will be built, with interoperability mechanisms that allow timely, immediate and effective actions” to combat all types of gender violence.
“With this law, the rights and privileges of the aggressors will end. Anyone who assaults a woman will have to be sure that her assault will be punished to the full extent of the law,” he warned.
In the first part of the year, the country reported 48 cases of femicide and 24,918 cases of violence against minors, according to the Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office.
Femicide is punishable in the country with 30 years in prison the right to pardon, the maximum penalty provided through Law 348 promulgated in 2013 through the then president, Evo Morales.
However, feminist organizations have been claiming for years that this rule is fully reputable due to shortcomings such as lack of budget and inadequate staff.
The cases of those convicted of femicide who were released and reoffended also provoked outrage, which led the government to create the aforementioned commission to review the processes.
Tuesday’s document fills some “gaps” in Law 348 and “creates” the competence to give daily work to autonomous territorial entities and at the central level, Aguilar said.
According to the leader, it is proposed that “all types of violence” have an “administrative and/or criminal sanctioning procedure” and that a functional network be created to combat and eradicate opposing violence to coordinate policies and the implementation of resources. . among all degrees of government.
The bill creates “a special scam procedure to punish differentiated violent crimes that eliminates unnecessary proceedings or hearings for the success of a trial” and strengthens the application of special coverage measures for victims, Aguilar said.
It also establishes the “priority for women in case of disappearance” if there is a history of violence and proposes the creation of an “administrative formula of differentiated sanctions in the fields of health, education, cadre and communication,” he said.
The government has suggested to the legislator that he treat this allocation as a priority. Ece
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