Cuba now has up-to-date statistical information to prevent and deal with gender-based violence, as a follow-up to the National Programme for the Advancement of Women, said Attorney General Yamila Peña.

Speaking to the presidential press after the recent session of the Council of Ministers, Peña praised the «National system for registration, attention, follow-up and monitoring of acts of gender violence in the family setting», presented to the national executive.

He explained that a group of 25 experts from the Ministry of the Interior and the Supreme People’s Court developed the computerised and interoperable administrative register, which would use these institutions’ own platforms for the management of criminal proceedings.

He explained that this administrative register is intended to provide statistical information for prevention in the fight against gender-based violence, and presented elements obtained from this instrument during 2023.

According to the data collected, 75 per cent of the acts of gender-based violence took place in the home, a trend that continues this year; 72 per cent of the victims were between 25 and 59 years of age; and 45 per cent were unpaid female workers.

Survivors were also identified who suffered abuse during the relationship and those who made previous complaints of threats or injuries, sometimes repeatedly as part of the cycle of violence, said the attorney general of the Republic.

The implementation of the National Registration System and the transparency of the results strengthens the rule of law, contributes to discouraging manifestations of violence, combats impunity, raises the legal education of the population and strengthens the social fabric around a problem that concerns everyone, said Peña.