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The post-pandemic economic and social recovery, the war between Ukraine and Russia, the political polarisation in almost every country in the world, threaten equity and expose new ways of violating rights and violating women and feminised bodies. This puts at risk the struggle for human rights to achieve full democracy, a more just society and a more liveable planet. It also poses new threats to the gains achieved so far through feminism. A review of what has been achieved since the Congress in 2020 shows that old forms of violence remain in place, and new ones have emerged.

Violence has many forms and faces. Although some have already been made visible and mechanisms have been created to combat and eradicate it, it is important to recognise that there is violence that is still normalised within the cis-heteropatriarchal system and others that are still invisible, either due to strategy or ignorance, and that threaten the exercise of our rights. Moreover, the development of some new technologies, the context and other variables have also generated new types of violence. Added to this are forms of violence against women that have become more sophisticated over time, or that were already present but not made visible. It even extends to childhood and adolescence as a way of violating women-mothers (vicarious violence). Thus, the list continues to grow instead of diminishing. 

In the face of this emergency, we want to make visible the ways in which this violence prevents us from achieving equality and at the same time make known forms of resistance through which the feminist struggle continues to build with the aim of defending our rights. 

For this reason, we want to focus on all these forms of violence, new or old, which constitute a clear emergency for the maintenance of recognised rights and the achievement of those not yet recognised, and also offer tools for the future resistance of our generation and those of future generations, with the aim of achieving just and full equality of rights, from diversity and pluralism, claiming and implementing all forms of sisterhood and sisterhood of women, from an imaginative and poetic point of view to make the eradication of violence possible.

We also want to rescue this space as a place of debate and creation of inclusive knowledge, a meeting point between academia, social movements and social intervention marked by resistance, sisterhood, and constructive struggle. We hope that this new edition of the Feminist November meeting will allow us to share and appropriate new learning, analytical categories and experiences that will feed our strategies and struggles against violence against women and feminised bodies. 

Casa Velázquez, with the support of the Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, an institution that promotes and supports the creation of knowledge, spaces for feminist debates and joint reflection, pillars on which the Jornada Noviembre Feminista is based. In addition, it is held as part of the activities of the Complutense University of Madrid, whose teaching staff and technical team promote a commitment to equality and the defence of human rights. 

In this fifth edition, entitled «New violence: Problems of the present, resistance for the future«, we seek to raise awareness of the old and new forms of violence that affect women and feminised bodies. In addition to shedding light on the new resistances that are being generated from different latitudes in search of solutions to guarantee equality.

1. We recognise that our bodies continue to be the main battle zone and the patrimony from which we must resist to prevent the perpetuation of systematic violence against women and feminised bodies. 

2. We identify that there are new forms of violence that also threaten our identities, either because of their diversity or lack of heteronormativity, which in a globalised context must imperatively change. 

3. We defend our territories as spaces of struggle, but also of belonging, of identification and from where feminism can contribute new ways to coexist in balance, especially in the growing context of a global climate crisis.

4. We maintain that all types of violence, new or old, must be made visible now to avoid normalisation and invisibilities. 

5. We denounce the low relevance given to violence against women and feminised bodies in hegemonic structures. 

6. We understand that the challenges are multiple, but that the feminist struggle cannot rest on its own. We promote the creation of resistances, as a response to these new challenges with the aim of sharing ideas, solutions, and analysis.