200308 – Reuters reported that feminists in Madrid, Spain, to denounce gender violence. Many events have been cancelled in Spain to minimize the possibility of Covid-19 spreading. Health Emergency Coordinator Fernando Simon, the day before, Saturday, stated the Health Ministry did not consider the marches a risk.
In 2016, five men were jailed for sexual abuse for gang-raping a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival. From this event Spain’s woman’s rights movement grew in strength and momentum.
Responding to discontent with Spain’s sexual violence laws, the leftwing government has approved a bill to qualify all non-consensual sex as rape. Previously a perpetrator had to have used physical violence or intimidation for an assault to be classified as rape.