The Government Delegation in the Canary Islands has published today the third episode of What do you know about gender-based violence?, the new audiovisual campaign to inform and raise awareness of this social scourge launched by the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands, through its Coordination Unit against Violence against Women.

In the third 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 La Gomera to check the degree of knowledge of the citizens about the Violeta Points, an instrument promoted by the Ministry of Equality that since 2021 seeks to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence.

In particular, the Gomera and the Gomera respond to questions about where they can be found, how they are identified and what content the Violeta Points have, which are the identification signal of safe spaces for information, prevention and accommodation to advance in the denunciation and eradication of all forms of violence against women.

As Evelia Déniz explains, a Violeta Point is a place within an organism, event or enclosure, of leisure, business or public service, whether nocturnal or diurnal, of advice and action that aims to sensitize the citizens, prevent and act in the face of aggressions against women in public spaces.

Identified with a violet circle and a QR code, the Violet Point acts as a ‘gateway’ so that all those women who have been victims or witnesses of an attack, or who simply want information, can go to it, tell what happened and request help.

Precisely, taking advantage of the recording of the episode and with the collaboration of the Association of Gara Women, a tent of Punto Violeta was installed in the Plaza de la Constitución of San Sebastián de La Gomera, to where neighbors and neighbors approached who received from the volunteers information and advice on the resources available to start the exit of gender violence.

La Gomera, pioneer in the commitment against gender violence

This chapter of the audiovisual campaign is located in La Gomera, the first island of the Canary Islands where all of its municipalities have declared themselves committed against gender violence by installing signs on the access roads along with the identification of its toponymy.

This initiative, promoted by the Insular Directorate of the General Administration of the State in La Gomera and with the collaboration of the Island Council and the six municipalities of the island, aims to give greater visibility to the rejection of gender violence, exalting in turn the values of the Gomero and the Gomera and their determined commitment to a respectful world with a coexistence free of male stereotypes.

In the video, the island director of the General Administration of the State in La Gomera, Juan Luis Navarro, highlights the good response on the island to the initiatives that are promoted against violence against women. “We are grateful for the response we always found in La Gomera. From the Insular Directorate we launched the idea of mobilizing the Town Councils and Cabildo to signal in the municipalities the commitment to fight this scourge and they were all there. The collaboration continues and we are already thinking about new initiatives.”

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.