Note for Equality: Political harassment, a kind of violence that goes against the quality of democracy
Political harassment, like other forms of violence against women, threaten the achievement of equality and women’s autonomy: without parity in the presence of women in decision-making spaces in all levels, it is not possible to talk about gender equality, nor the deepening of democracy.
The Governments of the region, as part of the discussion on parity and political autonomy, agreed in the X and XII Regional Conference on Women held in Quito (2007) and Santo Domingo (2013) respectively, to adopt legislative and institutional reforms to punish and eradicate political and administrative harassment against women who access decision-making positions via election or designation, both in national and local levels, and also in political parties and movements.