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The denunciation of the reality of Ukrainian women and girls victims of the war stars in the commemorative act of Women's Day in Dénia

08 March 2022 - 17: 54

As every March 8, the Dénia City Council has convened today the commemorative act of International Women's Day in which a manifesto prepared by the Dénia Women's Council is read and, in addition, tribute is paid to a woman of a group of women distinguished for having been pioneers in achieving goals towards equality in local society.

Before this script, the act has been developed with public and a character at the same time of celebration and vindication. But today, these demands have been very much aware of the war in Ukraine and the women and girls of the country invaded by Russian troops. They are victims of a war "who bear the effects of the conflict due to intersecting war violence, mistreatment and sexual assault", in the words of the Councilor for Equality, Javier Scotto. "They assume - he continued - the defense of their own integrity and that of their families". The councilor has concluded his reflection by asking that among the effects of the war, "women and girls are treated as groups of special vulnerability".

The same feeling was expressed by the mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, who in his speech, apart from the memory for Ukrainian women, stopped at the two faces of today's event.

On the one hand, Grimalt has highlighted the celebration aspect. "To be in the Plenary Hall today commemorating March 8 is the manifestation of a victory, that of the battle waged against the pandemic." "It's also a good day because this year we pay tribute to four women who represent another success: the incorporation of women, always too late, always too expensive, into a field of culture such as music."

The mayor was referring to the first four women who were part of the Musical Artistic Association of Dénia and who have been unanimously chosen by the Women's Council to receive the tribute this year. They are Isabel Conejero, Alicia García, Julia Molinillo and Pilar Gilabert. Today's act has been a first tribute, which Isabel Conejero, who lives in the Canary Islands, could not attend. Thus, the recognition ceremony has been scheduled to coincide with the Spring Concert of the Dénia Musical Artistic Group, on May 22.

The mayor, a member of the band for many years, recalled that "thanks to the clarity of ideas and human values ​​of Pep Cendra, director of the band in those years, the entity decidedly opted for the incorporation of women".

It was during the Santa Cecilia concert in 1981 that these first four women debuted in the band, two of them being a few years later, in 1995, the first two members of the Musical Artistic Association to finish higher music studies at the Conservatory from Alicante, recalls Grimalt.

The mayor ended the intervention by congratulating the female musicians "for showing society that prejudices only serve to dismantle them" and stressed that on a date like today "we have to claim an equality that is not real yet, as shown by data such as the gender wage gap, which is 15% in Spain, the fact that women dedicate more hours to domestic work than men or that since the official counts began in 2003, in the Spanish state there are 1.132 registered fatal victims of gender violence.

Javier Scotto has wanted to be the voice of women, of those "known or not, who have paved the way towards equality and feminism, who have fallen by the wayside to defend what they are and the world they want to live in".

The councilman also had a few words for the four honored musicians, recalling that with their incorporation into the band, "it changed in environment and language, producing a humanization of the entity." Finally, Scotto has stated that "there is a fundamental link between gender and progress in all areas of life, so there is no progress if there is no equality."

To end the act, the manifesto drafted and agreed by the Consell de les Dones was read. Three of the honored women have participated in the reading, Alicia, Julia and Pilar; and representatives of the UNED, the Baix la Mar fails, the House Wives Association; Mother. Women's Association, the Women's Center and the Local Board Fallera.

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