A milder judgment for murdering a woman in a home than on the street

The campaign on all products now stands for its tenth collection and this year the spotlight is directed to the construction of a new women’s refuge. In the day, Guðný Pálsdóttir and Elísabet Sveinsdóttir talk about the campaign this year, but they have been behind the campaign with Gróa Ásgeirsdóttir since 2008.

« There has been a lot of education and there is much more information today, people are much better informed about how violence looks, many manifestations and other things, but still do not reduce the violence, » says Linda Dröfn, pointing out that violence thrives in many places where people from all social groups can be used or

« Why is it another generation, a well -informed generation, but we are still there in the same place.

Perpetrators of violence experience themselves as victims

Violence in close relationships is a social injury, according to Linda, Guðný and Elizabeth. Funding campaign for all products this year is a call for the nation for the support of the Women’s Refuge, which provides women and children who flee their homes due to violence.

«  » I think there are two things to look at. It is on the one hand how we work with perpetrators. violence.

« It is so that many perpetrators do not experience themselves as perpetrators, but they feel even as victims. There are very few who sit down and connect with them being perpetrators in this regard, » she says.

What message is being sent?

« However, we also need to focus on how we can stop this at birth. to eliminate gender -based violence.

How about tightening penalties and other such?

« Yes, that’s one of them. We are seeing judgments less important in violence in close relationships than other violence, » says Linda.

« We are seeing as in the UK now that if a woman is murdered inside a home then it is a lesser judgment than if she was murdered on the streets.

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