MADRID, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The various political parties in the Spanish Congress on Monday reached an agreement to sign a State Pact against gender violence in Spain.
The agreement includes some 200 measures and will have a budget of around a billion euros (1.16 billion U.S. dollars) over the next five years to combat what is considered an important social problem in Spain given that 32 women have lost their lives in 2017 at the hands of their partners, five more than at the same time in 2016.
It has needed six months negotiations for the agreement to be reached, due partly to the large numbers of measures to be adopted.
Among those measures Spain's political parties have agreed to forbid minors from visiting their father in jail if he has been convicted of gender violence, while men who have been found guilty of mistreating their partner would lose visiting rights.
Meanwhile it will now no longer be necessary for a woman to make a formal complaint in order to receive advice or protection from judicial services.
