The Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya accelerates the revision of the protocols against gender violence

The denunciation of 25 professors and investigating victims of harassment and violent violence in the university, published in THE PERIOD, has not been released and has activated mechanisms. If the ‘Counselors’ of Igualtat i Feminismes y de Recerca i Universitats announce the preparation of a protocol gua that the universities update their procedures before the cases of abuse and harassment, there are Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya (CIC) which it has incorporated into the agenda de trabajo inmediata.

As well, it has been able to know its diary, its organism, which is represented by all universities, publications and private individuals, has informed all centers – from UAB, UB, UPC or Blanquerna-Ramon Llull– that the question of the preparation of a general market protocol shall be in the order of the day of the next meeting of the Women’s and Science Commissionforecast for February 23rd.

This meeting will be held in the University of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)gives the team of Rector Javier Lafuente decision in November 2020, after taking up position, “explore a profound revision“of its protocol against gender violence, which dates from November 2018.” There was a compromise with the students working to make the protocols more effective “, explains the general secretary of the UAB, Esther Zapater. The objective is to make the protocol more agile and increase its functioning.

Ahora esperan las general directors. “The ‘conselleries’ will announce a general protocol and the UAB will be here. We will not have this general mark as adaptations will tend to be made to the current protocols. For our idea to have our protocol updated this year. with all the community “, added Zapater.

The General Secretariat of the UAB ensures that the Rector has a “clear compromise” in combating gender violence in the university office and that the Campus Equality Unit has “total freedom to work and act with due diligence”.

In the University of Barcelona (UB), one of the first in contrast to antimachist protocols, also working on the revision of its protocol, which was updated last May in 2019. Now, the rector’s forecast is that in March or April we will have a revised version. It further incorporates the brand directives of the Consell Interuniversitari.

Deficit protocols

The 25 women who denounced cases of harassment at the university appointed that exist protocols, its application is deficient. Thus, for example, it is said that “peor when denouncing that when suffers the acoso”. The denunciator, because 90% of teachers and investigators are not denunciant. The ones that are being pushed to be separated, marginalized, and the same are the ones that support, in the way that the accusers, of one mode or another, salen impunes. This will be one of the nets that will have to deal with this trademark protocol of the Catalan universities.

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The ‘conseller’ of Igualtat, Tània Verge, who specifically directs the Igualtat Unit of the University of Pompeu Fabra (UPF), is responsible for declarations to EL PERIODICO that “the work of accompaniment, these protocols are deficient in multiple” and advances a line of work: “Falta celeridadlacks a training guarantee for the people who instruct the informative and disciplinary dispatchers, and lacks Repair warranties for victims“.