Article
Spanish
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Abstract
Violence against women is a widespread violation of human rights, and largely unpunished worldwide. When there seemed to be a consensus on tackling male violence, we are currently facing a threat of backsliding, which even attempts to call into question the concept agreed by the United Nations (1979), WHO (2002), the Istanbul Convention (2011) and Organic Law 1/2004 of 28 December on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender-Based Violence in the case of the Spanish State. This article is a reflection, based on the idea that democratic societies have an obligation to defend women’s rights, and to counter the lies of the denial ideologies of extreme right-wing gender-based violence, which go unpunished around the world. We believe that — by challenging measures against gender-based violence and the progress of feminine movements — we are assaulting more than half of the world’s population. This is male violence and the destruction of human rights. Therefore, Feminism is the best tool to combat backsliding that the extreme right seeks to impose.