Romel Alvarez

Community Formation Romel Alvarez

At present, there are several factors that can cause violence to increase in a community; they can be organic, physiological, pathological, external influences such as the environment in which the first years of an individual's life are developed, the lack of affection and attention from parents or simply bad guidance, which is why human rights violations affect both men and women; their impact varies according to the sex of the victim. Studies on the subject allow us to affirm that any aggression perpetrated against a woman has some characteristic that allows it to be identified as gender-based violence. This means that it is directly linked to the unequal distribution of power and the asymmetrical relations established between men and women in our society, which perpetuate the devaluation of the feminine and its subordination to the masculine. What differentiates this type of violence from other forms of aggression and coercion is that the risk or vulnerability factor is the mere fact of being a woman, although human rights violations affect both men and women.