Violence against women, sexist violence, relentlessly adapts to the present times and getting stronger.
One of the worst evils in society is misogyny, which is actually expanding. From the political and institutional fronts all discourses are supposedly aimed at solving the crisis, but neither the national governments nor the EU, are stating gender equality and policies against gender violence as indispensable.
In Europe and worldwide women's salaries are lower for the same jobs, women undergo double and triple working days, the feminization of poverty, less job opportunities, precarious employment, responsibility for care work, lower employment rates, lower rates of representation. Women are murdered when claiming girls' right to education, burkas won't disappear, women are stoned to death for defending their freedom, acid is used to repress the body, femicide of young and poor women  is increasing, as well as sexual exploitation of women and girls for the sexual gratification of male buyers and the financial profit of criminal organisations. Women defending secular and internationalist feminism are imprisoned...
In  several  countries  abortion  laws  are  threatened  by  backward  modifications, inequality is increasing, women are murdered, precariousness is also going up due to the crisis in states like Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy or most of the Eastern Europe countries. The sexist use of language by institutions and TV programs reinforce inequality and the dismantling of Public Services affects mostly women.
The Party of the European Left demands the ending of violence against women in our societies. For this the following is necessary:
That in addressing the crisis both national and European institutions direct their efforts and human, material and financial resources to establish equality and end violence against women by annual plans which must be reflected in a general and specific budgets at all levels.
To oppose the violence of the markets and Capital,
to oppose the cooperation of governments and the indifference of part of society:
We need a Feminist Revolution

EL Executive Board meeting, Copenhagen, 2012-11-17/18