Omerta

Diario Feminista (The Feminist Daily) starts today a series of articles concerning the fierce law of silence existing in some Universities for decades now regarding

Fifteen years before the current international movement #MeToo, another break in silence began in Spanish Universities. One of the denounced professors enjoyed thirty years of

In response to numerous requests from our readers, on the 8th and 25th of each month we will publish articles from this series. What Omerta

This article has been possible thanks to the deposition of two of the victims of the harassment case herewith disclosed, as well as the contributions

Some of the main vehicles and tools for the prevention of sexual harassment are the press and the media, which can and must have an

Today two years ago, June 13th 2016, some media launched a lynching against the victims who dared to break the silence in our universities. Who

P sent an article to a scientific journal falsifying the sample on which its content was based: most of its cases had never existed. DF

“C” has tried to be the public leader of all those “affected” by the victims of violence who have dared to denounce. His greatest triumph

The sources consulted by DF highlight the role that University power structures have played in the impunity of harassers and in the attacks to their

Some management bodies of our universities and some of their teaching staff have very actively contributed to anonymously disseminating, through social networks and even in

After putting every effort and achieving an extraordinary bachelor’s degree prize (a recognition to the best degree record), being an outstanding pupil on faculty’s lips,

The solidarity of Universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, Berkeley, the European Women’s’ Lobby, the End Rape on Campus victims’ network has been very active in

It is not an easy thing for the protagonists of the complicity with the University sexual harassers and their attacks on the victims to rectify;

Omerta 14 said and announced that other changes would follow. In this Omerta we will explain that another requested change was the prohibition for CREA

Some other changes that the UB Rector’s team demanded to the research Centre that broke the silence on gender-based violence was to remove the menu

Susana had to leave the doctorate and the university because she could not stand the attitude of the catedrático that had harassed her in a

The president of the International Sociology Association wanted to exemplify the daily life of a young woman who practiced her profession in the forms that

M.S. was one of the faculty members who always showed the most support with survivors. She was a member of the first Equality Committee of

As in other similar contexts, there are women and men who took part in favour of the victims at the University but, startlingly, also men

In my condition as the first victim to break the silence on the Spanish professor with more complaints of sexual harassment, I know very well

P. was awarded with a competitive predoctoral fellowship (named FPU) acknowledging her brilliant academic record and because of the CV of her advisor and research

In June 2016, more than two thousand five hundred people, mostly women, and two hundred groups and entities participated in the Radically-minded Feminist Conference held

The facts that the prosecution considered as a felony at a later point, were still prosecutable when, in 2009, teacher LP sent an official letter

V has been selected for the highest Postdoctoral contract in the European Union and already has articles of a higher level of international impact than

P was doing her doctoral thesis on gender and school. The deposit of her thesis coincided with the moment when the results of a national

M applied for a very competitive postdoctoral contract in the academic system. She also deposited her doctoral thesis, with the corresponding number of bound copies,

The defamations against the faculty who take a position against sexual harassment at the university and against who protect those who are victims, have been

pixabay Luis says whenever he has a chance that there is no such thing as scientific evidence and hoaxes, that there are those who call

pixabay On many occasions, the “critical” is added as justification for being alternative, transgressor, or above the rules. Some theoretical approaches have added the critical

A large scientific congress was being organized with the participation of researchers from all disciplines, scientific journals, evaluation agencies and three Nobel Prize winners from

pixabay As soon as the silence was broken, the lobby of harassers received the support of professors who saw their power in danger. The previous

The journalist was repeatedly offered evidence to prove that what she wanted to spread at all costs was just baseless defamation. With one of the

The omertá, which for so many years has protected harassing professors in the university, has ensured the complicit silence of the majority of the university

The feudal university, based on power relations, the law of silence, contacts and connections, often prevents the victims from becoming survivors and advancing in the

In the hard years when courageous women were restarting feminism under the dictatorship, P was one of those who said that feminism was petty bourgeois

T is a student who came from another city to do her master’s degree, which culminated in a Master’s thesis on gender-based violence. As a

The “journalist” was afraid that the media crisis would lead him to lose his job and to have to get back to the job he

According to the sources consulted and the documentation analysed, Clara had a brilliant scientific career at the university, and her CV announced that she would