To mark the International Day, the Select Committee on Gender and Equality of the House of Representatives held a special session attended by representatives of the Ministry of Social Development, the Ministry of the Interior, the Bicameral Women’s Caucus, the Uruguayan Network against Domestic and Social Violence, Caminos (an interdisciplinary centre), PIT-CNT and Mujeres de Negro, a women’s association. The session issued a declaration recognizing the State’s compliance with the provisions of the Belém Do Pará Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women. It renewed the commitment to continue working to provide women with a life free of violence, it being understood that “it is not possible to build a democratic, respectful and tolerant society if this scourge is not eliminated”.