More than 1,225 girls and adolescents have been victims of sexist violence in the Valencian Community since 2011, the first year with records, according to the National Institute of Statistics, the NGO Save de Children has warned on the occasion of 25N, International Day for the Eradication of violence against women.
The director of Save the Children in the Valencian Community, Rodrigo Hernández, has assured that there is "a lot of normalized gender violence among teenage couples, which has also moved to a new channel, the digital sphere. It is no longer just harassment and virtual control, new forms of violence based on misogyny and discrimination are now occurring. The most vulnerable group in this case continues to be girls and adolescents."
In the Valencian Community, 928 girls and adolescents have been victims of sexual crimes in the digital environment since there were records, according to the Ministry of the Interior, the NGO has reported.
Insults such as "women are only good for..." and the sexual objectification of women are these new forms of violence that are establishing themselves and gaining more strength among young people, he added.
In the Save the Children report "It is not love" it showed how the Internet is another means of exercising violence, and that it sometimes added to what they already suffered in the physical world. Save the Children is committed to emotional-sexual education in schools in the Valencian Community, as well as training in the safe and responsible use of technologies as a tool to end gender violence.
In addition, it calls for the implementation of the measures that make up the law for the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence (LOPIVI). Among them, the implementation of the unified violence registry to have data and better monitoring of cases.
"The best policy against this type of violence is prevention. If boys and girls learn from an early age to have healthier and more egalitarian relationships, we will be able to avoid this violence when the time comes. Pornography cannot be what educates young people in what relationships are, so this affective-sexual education is essential," concluded Hernández.
