25 de noviembre: Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer

Published date12 December 2023
AuthorAbril Neiman
Law FirmOjam Bullrich Flanzbaum

Un poco de historia


La historia de esta fecha se remonta a 1960 en República Dominicana, cuando las hermanas Mirabal –tres activistas políticas– fueron asesinadas en manos del gobierno dictatorial de entonces. Dos décadas después, en 1981, en Bogotá, Colombia, el movimiento feminista latinoamericano convocó a las mujeres a una jornada de reivindicación para conmemorar los femicidios contra las hermanas Mirabal.


Tras la Declaración sobre la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer de la Asamblea General de la Naciones Unidas en 1993, quedó finalmente definido el concepto de violencia contra la mujer. Ésta debe ser entendida entonces como “todo acto de violencia basado en la pertenencia al sexo femenino que tenga o pueda tener como resultado un daño o sufrimiento físico, sexual o sicológico para la mujer, así como las amenazas de tales actos, la coacción o la privación arbitraria de la libertad, tanto si se producen en la vida pública como en la vida privada”[1].


Dicha definición deja atrás la idea de violencia doméstica y su circunscripción al ámbito privado, para reconocer en...

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