Legal assistance in gender violence
Gender-based violence is a violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms. A violence directed towards women for the mere fact of being women, for being considered by their aggressors as people lacking the minimum rights of freedom and respect.
Bringing to the forefront this serious social problem that turns women into victims, regardless of their training, profession, social class or nationality, is one of the priorities of the Community of Madrid.
Pioneer in the fight against gender violence
The Community of Madrid, in its fight against gender-based violence, has been a pioneer in implementing plans and programs that have culminated in the approval of the first regional law on this matter, Law 5/2005, of 20 December, Comprehensive against Gender Violence in the Community of Madrid.
In 2001 it launched the "Program of Actions against Gender Violence of the Community of Madrid (2001-2004)" and in 2005 it undertook the "Comprehensive Action Plan against Gender Violence (2005-2008)", which came supported by the aforementioned law.
In addition to creating in 2003 the Regional Observatory of Gender Violence, an integrating body of the policies that in this matter are carried out in the regional administration.
The Community of Madrid was also a pioneer by opening the first shelter in 1984. Since then, it has carried out a set of care measures for victims of gender-based violence that have led to the consolidation of a complete comprehensive care network for gender-based violence.
Municipal points of the Regional Observatory
What is a biosimilar
The observatory is made up of a total of 54 municipal points that are the gateway to the resources of the comprehensive care network for gender-based violence in the Community of Madrid, except in Madrid capital, where this function is carried out by the Service of Attention to Victims of Gender Violence (SAVG 24 hours).
Who do they help?
They are information and advice points for victims of gender violence and also for all those professionals who need information and/or support on the development of activities aimed at the prevention of gender violence.
¿Qué ofrecen?
- They establish basic municipal services in the prevention of gender-based violence and attention to victims.
- They carry out a coordination of actions aimed at unifying the criteria for intervention in the face of gender violence, under the supervision of the General Directorate for Women.
- They offer, from the municipal level, professionalized services in terms of prevention and comprehensive care for victims.
Where are they?
Free legal advice
Women victims of gender violence residing in the Community of Madrid can go here to seek free legal advice.
Court fees and free legal assistance
Includes as beneficiaries of free legal assistance all victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking, immediately, in all those processes that are linked, derive or are a consequence of their status as victims, as well as minors. of age and people with mental disabilities when they are victims of situations of abuse or mistreatment.
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FAQs
What is gender violence and what is domestic violence?
Gender violence It is the one exercised by the man over the woman when there is a relationship between them. marital relationship or a analog affective relationship to the conjugal, even when there had been no cohabitation. The relationship does not have to be current, but may have ended at the time of the aggression as long as it derives from it.
domestic violence is that violence exercised between the members of the Family nucleus which is cited in article 173.2 of the Penal Code, that is to say:
- On spouse or person with whom you are or have been linked by a similar affective relationship even without living together.
(This possibility is reserved for cases in which it is the woman who attacks the man and for homosexual couples, since when it is the man who attacks the woman, it is called gender violence).
- About the descendants, ascendants or siblings by nature, adoption or affinity, own or of the spouse or cohabitant, or on minors or incapacitated persons who live with him or who are subject to the power, guardianship, curatorship, foster care or de facto custody of the spouse or cohabitant, or on person protected in any other relationship for which it is integrated into the nucleus of their family life, as well as on people who, due to their special vulnerability, are subject to custody or care in public or private centers.
Can a man be a victim of gender violence or domestic violence?
of gender-based violence, can only be the woman who is assaulted by who is or has been her husband or partner.
of domestic violence yes, for example if he is attacked by the person who is or has been his wife or partner, his daughter, his son, etc.
What if the violence occurs within a homosexual marriage or couple?
In any case, we will be faced with a case of domestic violence.
So, apart from the interveners, what is the difference between gender violence and domestic violence?
La penalty es Most in the cases of gender violenceknowing her Courts of Violence against Women, or those who have been entrusted with their functions.
If I am a victim of gender violence, do I have the right to a free legal aid lawyer?
Siregardless of income. Although, if the sentence resulting from the criminal procedure is acquittal or archive, the right will be lost when the economic limits fixed in the law.