The Government Delegation in the Canary Islands has published today the second episode of What do you know about gender-based violence?, the new audiovisual campaign to inform and raise awareness of this social scourge launched through its Coordination Unit against Violence against Women.
In the second of the seven chapters that make up this series, the head of the Service against Violence against Women of the Delegation of the Government in the Canary Islands, Evelia Déniz, and the journalist David Perdomo go out on the street in El Hierro to check the degree of knowledge of different types of violence against women:
- SOCIAL VIOLENCE: It occurs when the aggressor limits, controls and induces his or her partner into social isolation, separating them from family and friends with the intention of removing them from their usual environment and leaving them without support or resources.
- VICARIOUS VIOLENCE:: Violence against women through their loved ones and, in particular, through their sons and daughters, who are considered victims of gender violence.
- CYBERVIOLENCE: is any act or behavior of the aggressor aimed at inflicting harm on women through information and communication technologies, using channels such as social networks, mobile messaging programs such as WhatsApp or email.
- ECONOMIC VIOLENCE: is any limitation, legally unjustified deprivation or discrimination in the disposition of property, property resources or economic rights falling within the scope of the couple ' s coexistence or in cases of break-up of the relationship. This includes situations in which the couple is forced to depend economically on the aggressor, preventing their access to the labor market through threat, coercion or physical aggression.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE: any conduct that violates the psychological and emotional integrity of women through threats, insults, humiliation, coercion, contempt for personal worth or dignity, demands for obedience, social isolation, guilt and deprivation of liberty. Psychological violence is also considered any conduct aimed at causing damage to the victim's property, with the aim of inflicting fear or fear on the victim, as well as harassment on the basis of sex. Because on many occasions no direct aggressiveness is perceived in the message, many women are unaware of being abused and do not take action against the aggressor.
In the video, the Secretary General of the Insular Directorate of the General Administration of the State in El Hierro, Ramón Acevedo, highlights how many of these types of violence are “violence that people do not identify as violence against women” and that in many cases, as in social and economic violence, they entail a “real loss of freedom for women”.
Seven episodes, seven themes
In What do you know about gender-based violence? A team led by Evelia Déniz travels through the seven Canary Islands where the Government Delegation has an island headquarters to ask different questions and offer answers to people who are in the street, issues that address issues directly or indirectly related to violence against women, such as the myths of love or the use of pornography.
The head of the Service against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands will respond to doubts, but, above all, to erroneous approaches, placing special emphasis on the existence of a whole series of assistance resources for victims and their daughters and sons, sponsored by the State Pact against Gender Violence.
The campaign, funded by the State Pact against Gender Violence and also distributed to the media, will be extended until the week before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25N, two months in which the media channel will acquire particular prominence. YouTube of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands and its new profile in Instagram, in addition to their accounts in X, Facebook and LinkedIn.