Give Against Gender Violence They raise their voices and encourage denouncing those who suffer it
“In the face of abuse, do not shut up. “With this motto, a group of Spanish athletes raised their voices this Wednesday in the Day Against Gender Violence. The fatalities For this reason, in Spain so far this year until November 2020 there are 41, according to the latest balance of the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Equality. In November 2020 a total of 3 women have been murdered victims of the sexist violence.
In the video that has spread Iberdrola, promoter of women’s sports in Spain, athletes of the stature of Sandra Sanchez, the best karate fighter of all time, number 1 in the world, world champion, five times European champion and 55 consecutive medals. She hasn’t stepped off the podium since January 2015. So do rugby ‘lionesses’, various field and ice hockey players and gymnasts.
The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has brought together several Olympic athletes to launch different videos on the occasion of the campaign #NiUnaMenos. The taekwondist Eva Calvo, the beach volleyball player Adrin Gavira, the basketball player Laura Quevedo and the judoka Laura Martnez they are the athletes who have starred in this initiative so far, contributing their grain of sand in spreading the message.
Do not be afraid. We are with you.
@Macias1500#DaMundialContraLaViolenciaDeGneropic.twitter.com/rAtBDnffyK
? Spanish Olympic Committee (@COE_es) November 25, 2020
For their part, the badminton players Carolina Marn, Olympic champion, three-time world champion and four-time European champion, and Clara azurmendi They also wanted to send a message on such a special day from the CAR pavilion in Madrid where they train.
“Gender violence is another great pandemic against which we have to fight so that it disappears from society,” says the Basque player. “Don’t look the other way, don’t shut up when faced with violence,” adds Marn.
In the face of abuse, ACT and do not shut up #WorldDayAgainstGenderViolence
Today and always #NiUnaMenos#NiUnaMas#25Noviembre# 25N@CarolinaMarin@clarazurci@CAMorenoPodiumpic.twitter.com/3AYTb9ADus
? Bdminton Espaa (@BadmintonESP) November 25, 2020
In the Endesa Women’s League There are also signs of support for the victims on the occasion of this day. Several teams have changed their usual profile photo to dress her in purple from 25N, as is the case of Spar Girona, CD Zaramat, Alter Enersun Al-Qzeres Extremadura or Lointek Gernika, among many others.
The three were returning home after visiting the husbands of two of them in the Puerto Plata prison when they were intercepted by agents of the regime’s Military Intelligence Service. They were beaten to death. They put the bodies in the car and dumped them down a ravine to make it look like an accident. His assassination on November 25, 1960.
The world day against gender violence It is celebrated on November 25 in honor of Minerva, Patria and Mara Teresa Mirabal, three Dominican sisters, active militants against the Trujillo regime, who were assassinated as today in 1960.
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