They leave in Santiago against gender-based violence

While the Prosecutor of Santiago, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, believes that gender-based violence is a problem of public order and on that appreciation has invited the population to join here tomorrow Wednesday at the walking zero tolerance towards violence against women, a national men's movement has launched the quest for one million signatures as a commitment to not engage in violence against women.

The walk will begin at 3: 00 pm in the bust of the Mirabal sisters, on the track of the same name.

Reynoso expressed unprecedented levels of violence this year, whose cases are increasingly more heinous.

"We invited civil society to walk, to give visibility to a topic that is not a matter of man and woman, but a matter of public order, of life", explained the judge at a Conference of press.

In so far this year, in Santiago only eleven women have been murdered by their partners u000aand former romantic partners. According to Berenice Reynoso, unity of Integral Care for domestic violence, Sexual and intra-family, does not supply the number of users who populate the building adjacent to the Palace of Justice in Santiago.

To date, it was reported, they have responded positively to 16 thousand people with various cases.

"Invite people to walk through life." "It is important that together, and together we desmontemos this macho culture that sees women as an object property of the man," said the judge, who also asked the representatives of the media not to use the term "crime of passion", referring to the murders against women.

"Is incorrect to say is a crime of passion because with the term we are justifying the offence", he added.

, the male sector promoter of the million signatures said initiatives against domestic violence have been conducted u000afor women, the main victims of such misunderstood male expression.

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