Only in January, 1,761 people made complaints of gender violence in the court office

The Office of Domestic Violence (OVD) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation attended last January to 1,761 people, 8% more than in the same month last yearaccording to a report released this Thursday. 60% were women over 18 years and 27% children and adolescents.

The data acquire particular importance in a context where The government evaluates eliminating the figure of femicide of the Criminal Code and after a year of closing the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity. To justify these initiatives, they affirm that these focused policies are not necessary to combat violence against women.

The OVD works 24 hours a day and has its offices in the city of Buenos Aires. On average, during January he received 55 people per day. In addition to deriving cases to different public and judicial organizations, the OVD delivered 81 antipanic buttons and The National Civil Justice ordered 3,482 urgent preventive measures.

The report showed a situation where Almost in all cases, the denounced person had some link close to the victim, either as a couple or ex -partner or as a family.

47% of the victims had a couple or ex -partner with the denounced person. 33% the link was filial; that is, son or parent. Meanwhile, in 4% of the cases, the aggressor was a brother or sister and in 7% they had a degree of kinship of up to fourth grade of kinship. Just in 9% of cases the aggressor was not familiar.

Types of violence

While the physical violence It was present in almost half of the cases of the report, 47%which was denounced overwhelming was the Psychological, 96%. This means that in cases there may be more than one type violence.

After physics, VSymbolic Iolence It was the most denounced, with the 44%. They follow him Environmental (34%), economic economic (26%), sexual (7%), social (6%) and digital (3%).

As for the risks that the complainants were going through, 27% of cases were considered high risk, 60% of medium or moderate level and 13% low. As for the injuries, 211 people were found. That is, 18.6%.