The ICAB Official Shift warns that it has provided up to 1,143 more assistanc...

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Throughout the  the Office of the Barcelona Bar Association has provided 9,378 assistance in matters of gender and sexist violence in the ICAB district, which includes Barcelona and its 11 delegations. 08/03/2024 The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) has taken stock of the data from the Office and Equality Shift of this Corporation on the occasion of the celebration of International Women's Day, which is commemorated every March 8. The deputy responsible for the Official Shift and Assistance to Detained Persons, Carmen Valenzuela , has stated that throughout the year 2023, a total of 9,378 official actions on gender and sexist violence have been carried out. Of these, 6,811 correspond to gender violence, that is, between two people who have or have had a romantic relationship, and 2,564 correspond to sexist violence (violence exercised by a man towards a woman without the existence of a romantic relationship).

These data indicate, on the one hand, that throughout the year 2023 there have been 1,143 more assistances compared to the year 2022, which ended with a total of 8,232 assistances for gender and sexist violence. On the other hand, the ICAB Office Shift attends to more than 26 attendances on average daily in this area in the ICAB demarcation (Barcelona and delegations: Arenys de Mar, Badalona, ​​Hospitalet dthat gender and Industry Email List sexist violence is the third area in which the most attendances are recorded in 2023. Of the total of 130,525 actions that were carried out since the ICAB Office Shift, in first place are those in the criminal area (86,721 ), followed by those of civil scope (17,292). While below the actions on gender and sexist violence are the workplace, immigration minors (3,981), contentious-administrative (656) and penitentiary (588). It should be remembered that the Office Shift Service is provided 24 hours a day,  hours a year.



These data show that the social drama of violence against women persists in an alarming manner. For this reason, Valenzuela has vindicated the important work of the public defender's office and, especially on this March 8, the work carried out by the nearly 3,000 lawyers assigned voluntarily, of which 1,081 are part of the specific Shift of gender violence. In this shift there are currently 562 female lawyers and 519 male lawyers. Valenzuela has also called for the need to create a specific sexist violence shift, which complements the gender violence shift. ICAB Equality Data The representative responsible for the Co of equality in the field of the legal profession in Barcelona in the last 20 years (2003-2023). Flaquer has highlighted that the growing incorporation of women into the legal sector will allow, in accordance with the trend of recent months, that throughout 2024 the historic fact will be reached that the Corporation, which has 191 years of existence, is made up for the first time by more women than men.