The violence perpetrated against women is undoubtedly one of the biggest obstacles before those who must confront a democratic society that lays the cornerstones of its development on the principles of equality, liberty and security of its citizens.

The commemoration of November 25 as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, declared by UN in 1999, was a recognition of the harsh reality: physical and mental abuse that so timeless and continually exerted on women for the simple fact of being anchored in patriarchal values that define a historically unequal power relations between men and women and that today, in the twenty-first century, still exist in our society.

The reaction of the international community in the '90s, marked a before and after the conception they had of gender violence, from being a strictly private sphere problem, to be displayed publicly as a problem of great social significance .

The Valencia was no stranger to this new perspective. The establishment by the Government of the People's Party Women's Center 24 Hours in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante in 1997, marked a decisive commitment of the Government to boost the first statewide public resource from which a service is rendered permanent the 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Through this initiative, women in the Valencia residents have a dedicated service from which they are given immediate attention and support and appropriate information through a multidisciplinary team of professionals who turn their efforts to achieve emotional and social recovery.

Ten years after their operation, 24 Hour Woman Centers have provided advice to live in their units and more than 21,500 women have served 264,871 calls through the toll-free call. These figures emphasize the great professional work done on behalf of women victims of such violence.

Subsequently, the social response has been complemented with other measures of judicial and police of great importance and effectiveness, including the creation of specialized courts and the enactment in 2003 of the Organic Law Regulating the Order of Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence, from which reflects the strong involvement of the judiciary on this issue and that formed a new system of coordination of administrative institutions and judicial bodies, setting a fast and agile process aims to provide victims with physical protection, legal and social immediately in front of her attacker.

Fortunately, we can see that the effectiveness of these measures is a fact. According to the General Council of the Judiciary, of the total complaints in the last two years before the Courts of Violence against Women, in 76.2% of the cases has returned guilty verdicts on the aggressors.

In this sense, the offices of the Care of Victims of Crime, dependent on the Department of Justice and Public Administration, have played a prominent role, as units of coordination and assistance to which women could seek such protection.

However, all these developments must be analyzed from the wisdom and respect for women who die each year because of brutal attacks. The reality is stubborn. During this year, 67 women were murdered in Spain by their partners or former, 10 of them in Valencia.

As current head of the Consell of the Generalitat of policies for prevention and eradication of violence perpetrated against women, I can only consider a single reflection What else can we do?.

To date, necessarily all measures of attention have been directed at protecting the victim, women, mothers and children who directly or indirectly suffer this type of violence in the family, and we must continue acting as a single woman there every day suffers any type of assault or abuse in any of our towns or cities.

But the one year commemoration of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, reminds us that this social scourge persists in our society, we cry aloud that supposedly civilized societies like ours will continue to violate the fundamental rights of people, including the right to life and freedom.

This should force us to go further, you must remove consciences and sensibilities renewed search. Should force us to go one step further. It's time to look ahead to the executioner, the aggressor who lives outside of this reality that goes with it, which does not affect their daily lives, that does not stop going to their jobs, nor care for their children in a climate of normality and affection.

In this new gait, we must consider new strategies without neglecting the care they need women and child victims of such violence, we will launch new mechanisms of prevention and safety devices to safeguard their physical integrity and ensure their Full protection, until justice and the public decide if their perpetrators are able to reintegrate them with respect to our society.