The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has called for being “united before the essential” as is the fight against sexual exploitation and human trafficking, because “the best way to fight against great discrimination, against serious imbalances and against the most brutal attacks on human rights is united”.
Quiñones has pointed this out this Tuesday in the act for the International Day against Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons organized by the NGO Nueva Vida in the Parliament of Cantabria and in which the delegate of the Government has indicated that “only through collaboration and cooperation between all administrations, institutions and organizations can we be able to protect the victims and guarantee their rights and dignity, but, above all, work on their eradication”.
The representative of the Government of Spain in Cantabria thanked Nueva Vida for organizing this event to denounce that “sexual exploitation is one of the greatest expressions of the slavery of women and girls in the 21st century, one of those terrible faces of the inequality that still exists but that we are often unable to see because it hides before the eyes of the majority of citizens.”
Faced with this, he has claimed that the Government of Spain has brought forward the Organic Law against Trafficking and the Exploitation of Human Beings to promote the prevention of sexual violence and guarantee the rights of all victims.
“A before and after in the commitment to the protection of human rights because, as a social and rule of law state, it is fundamental that we offer an itinerary so that those who are trapped, who are immersed in these networks, can leave,” he said.
Quiñones has highlighted that this is a law that includes “measures to discourage demand and try to break the chain of business that is generated using human beings, women and girls, as commodities, and combat crime more effectively and avoid impunity.”
On the other hand, the delegate of the Government in Cantabria recalled that the Government of Spain has also promoted “another important law to combat sexual exploitation, such as the Law on the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents against Violence, which guarantees the fundamental rights of girls and boys victims of any violence, such as trafficking in human beings, and establishes a reinforced attention in the protection centers to specific actions of prevention, early detection and intervention in cases of sexual exploitation and trafficking of human beings.”
Before concluding, Quiñones valued and thanked “the work, commitment and determination of the State Security Forces and Bodies, the National Police and the Civil Guard, in the fight against this scourge.”
“Beyond the laws, essential to change the vocation of society, to guide us in how to face the future, as I said before, the most important thing is unity of action, the most important thing is that together, we think as we think, we have clear priorities in the fight against the violation of the rights of the most defenceless and we fight from politics and institutions sexual exploitation, human trafficking and all those issues that violate the very values of the Constitution and democracy as is the value of equality between women and men,” he concluded.
The event was also attended by the President of the Parliament of Cantabria, María José González Revuelta; the Councilor for Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality, Begoña Gómez del Río, and the manager of Nueva Vida, Julio David García Justamante.