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Who we are….
Project
 
The Project RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ is an initiative that comes into existence tosensitize, to inform and to advice about gender violence in all social environmentsclose to foreign women. It is about a public and free service directed to allinstitutions as public as private, working in the network of immigration.The project relies on the financing of the Viceconsejería of Social Politics andImmigration and is managed by the Association for Integrated Development of Women MERCEDES MACHADO. Its basic principles are promotion of all necessaryactions for overcoming the gender inequalities and empowering of women in theTenerife Island, in coordination with the other Associations.The reality of the immigrant women in the actual context of our space is markedby the triple discrimination they support being immigrant, worker and woman.
@-bulletin
NUMBER1
NOV 2011
 
Rigoberta Menchú
Community Intervention Network for the Prevention of Gender Violence in Foreign Women
This bulletin tries to be adigital tool for the information,news, actualities and activitiesof interest.
 
"The woman with an imagination isable to project not only the life of thefamily or the society, but also thefuture of the millennium" (RigobertaMenchú, Nobel Peace Prize).
 
Foreign Women’s vulnerability to the gender violence
Foreign woman who is victim of gender violence meets a series offactors related to cultural, structural and work problems, that generate asituation of great fragility, usually derived from their precarious and irregularsituation, which not only moves them away from the accusation of violence,but also from the institutions of guardianship and protection.So, statistics say that until November 3
rd
, 2011, there have been 53mortal victims of Gender violence, from which 18 were foreign nationalities.But we have to add, that from those 53 women only 14 had formalized thecorresponding complaint.By the other hand, from January 1
st
to August 31
st
of this year, 587temporary residence and work permits have been granted to the foreignwomen, who are victims of gender violence.
 
Our services
Contacta con nosotras….
922 310 324 y 685 880 294
 
rigobertamenchu.machado@gmail.com
 
 
Advice and information for the Public and Private Entities participating with the collective ofimmigrants on the subject of Equality and Gender Violence.
 
Periodic technical meetings with professionals and responsibles of the Public and PrivateEntities related to Equality, Immigration and Gender Violence.
 
Information, Advice and Specialized Intervention for foreign women who are victims ofgender violence on the juridical and psychological subjects.
 
Chats and workshops on legislation, rights and appeals about Equality and Gender Violence,immigrants’ and women’s associative movements.
 
Guided workshops for improving the self-esteem of the immigrant women.
 
Work sessions for improving in a positive way the intercultural coexistence directed to foreignwomen.
 
Workshops, chats, exhibitions and thematic activities about Gender Violence, gender andmigration, women’s rights in the education environment.
 
Loan and equipment of the thematic exhibitions about Gender Violence, Women and
 
 The new measures aim to improve the possibilities of foreignwomen, who are victims of gender violence, to exercise theirconstitutional right to effective judicial protection; thesemeasures are summarized in the following points:
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When the woman denunciate the assailant, it is possible to apply fora residence and work permit on the grounds of exceptionalcircumstances for herself and for her children older then 16 years.Also the mistreated woman can apply for a residence permit forincapable or minor children.
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It provides the automatic granting of a temporary residence and workpermit to the mistreated woman and her children, which temporarilyresolved her situation until the court decision related with thedenunciation of gender violence.
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As well, the administrative file for application of a penalty on the basisof the breach of article 53.1.a) will not be initiate, and theadministrative file for application of a penalty will be suspended,because of prior to denunciation.
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Finally, not only the criminal proceedings concluding with a sentenceis a favorable sentence for the victim, but also the cases when theconclusion of the criminal proceedings infers the situation of genderviolence, the cause files owing to missing of the defendant orprovisional suspension because of the expulsion of the denunciation.(Organic Law 10 dated July 27
th
, 2011,Amendments to the Articles 31 bis and 59 bis, ofOrganic Law 4 dated January 11
th
, 2000, on therights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and theirsocial integration. BOE July 28
th
, 2011).
Amendment to the Article 31 bis, of Organic Law 4 datedJanuary 11
th
, 2000, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners inSpain and their social integration.
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