2023-10-30 08:26:35
The ‘Joint Action to Call for a Reduction in the Budget for Prevention of Violence Against Women and Support for Victims’ (hereinafter referred to as Joint Action) held a press conference in front of the main building of the National Assembly in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul at 11 am on the 30th, and announced that the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family will cut the budget for prevention of violence against women and support for victims in next year’s budget. They are holding up a sign saying that it must be withdrawn. Providing joint action
When the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family drastically cut the budget for preventing violence against women and supporting victims in next year’s budget, victim support organizations gathered together and took joint action. The organizations urged the withdrawal of the reduced budget plan, saying that if things continue like this, victims cannot be properly supported. The ‘Joint Action to Prevent Violence Against Women and Call for the Reduction of Victim Support Budget Reduction’ (hereinafter referred to as Joint Action), a solidarity group in which 569 organizations supporting victims of violence against women participated, held a press conference in front of the main building of the National Assembly in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul at 11 am on the 30th to “prevent violence against women and “The victim support budget has been cut by 14.2 billion won,” he said, adding, “We oppose the budget plan that seeks to regress gender equality and neutralize the victim support system.” At the press conference on this day, members of the National Assembly Gender Equality and Family Committee, which has the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family as an audit agency, also participated, including Democratic Party of Korea Rep. Kwon In-sook (Chairman), Shin Hyeon-young (Opposition Party Secretary), Yang Kyung-sook, and Basic Income Party Rep. Yong Hye-in. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family previously submitted a budget plan to the National Assembly for next year that drastically cuts the budget related to preventing violence against women, including reducing the budget for operating domestic violence counseling centers by 27.5% (KRW 11.637 billion this year → KRW 8.44 billion next year). In addition, the budget for rescue support for victims of prostitution was cut by about half (KRW 1.06 billion) from KRW 2.255 billion this year, and the budget for support for medical expenses for victims of sexual violence was also reduced by KRW 805 million from KRW 4.341 billion. In particular, a sexual human rights education project targeting elementary, middle, and high school students (this year’s budget of KRW 556 million), production of digital sexual crime prevention education content (this year’s budget of KRW 996 million), and a promotion project to improve awareness of immigrant women and prevent violence damage ( This year’s budget (76 million won) was completely cut in next year’s budget. Joint Action pointed out that the reduced budget for ‘prevention of violence against women and support for victims’ amounted to approximately 14.2 billion won. The joint action said, “The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said that the reason for the reduction was to reflect support performance, (in the case of victim protection facilities) low admission rate, reflection of medical expense execution rate, and business efficiency due to the occurrence of illegal supply and demand,” and “The government should focus on performance and efficiency rather than healing and recovering victims.” “It clearly shows that they are only focusing on this,” he criticized. He continued, “What the government needs to do now is not to reduce the budget in a hurry to achieve results, but to secure a budget for actual healing and recovery of victims and to improve the system to increase the effectiveness of budget investment.” Furthermore, he argued, “The reckless consolidation of (counseling centers) and cuts to the awareness improvement budget will inevitably lead to a regression in gender equality in our society,” and “the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s budget plan for next year must be completely abolished.” The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family began to explain, saying, “The budget for integrated support for victims of the five major types of violence has increased, so the total cut is only 5.3 billion won.” The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said, “(This budget cut) is due to the consolidation of national debt projects and the efficiency of operation of auxiliary projects,” and added, “We will create a more thorough support system for victims of violence against women through efficient budget management.”
At 11 am on the 30th, at 11 am on the 30th, the ‘Joint Action Calling for the withdrawal of cuts in the budget for prevention of violence against women and support for victims’ (hereinafter referred to as Joint Action) was held in front of the main building of the National Assembly in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, stating that the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family should withdraw the cuts in the budget for prevention of violence against women and support for victims in next year’s budget. A press conference is being held. Providing joint action
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