The forensic doctor, university professor and delegate of the Government against Gender Violence from 2008 to 2011, Miguel Lorente, will receive next Friday, November 24, the Menina recognition of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in Cantabria for its involvement in the fight against gender violence.
The Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has informed the expert on gender violence of the granting of this recognition by the Government Delegation in its fourth edition in the Autonomous Community.
Quiñones stressed that, with this recognition from the Ministry of Equality, “the work of those who carry out intense daily work to combat gender violence is to be praised.”
“Miguel Lorente is an indisputable reference of the fight against male violence, a man allied to women in the fight against the greatest reflection of gender inequality that still persists and therefore, an example for other men who must join in that fight for the dignity, life and security of women,” he said.
In this sense, Quiñones has affirmed that “the cause of equality must generate consensus, unite wills and add not only women but also men because more equality is more social and economic development, more progress and greater well-being for all”.
For the delegate, with this recognition to Miguel Lorente “we want to value his professional trajectory focused on fighting violence against women, as well as encourage the rest of men in our society, especially those who hold positions of responsibility and visibility, to carry out this type of activities of awareness and involvement in the fight against this scourge”.
“This year 2023, 52 women have already been murdered in our country, showing the cruellest and most unpunished face of machismo, the clearest image of the inequality that we still suffer and that we must not only condemn but on which we must act firmly to eradicate it,” Quiñones insisted.
The delegate of the Government has advanced that the Menina recognition, which consists of a sculpture in the forge of a menina, will be delivered on November 24, at 1:00 p.m., in an act in the María Blanchard Room of the Palace of Festivals of Cantabria.
Lorente is a PhD in Medicine, a specialist in Surgery and a forensic doctor. He is Associate Professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Granada. He holds a Master’s Degree in Bioethics and Medical Law.
He was director of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Granada and general coordinator of the Institutes of Legal Medicine of Andalusia. From December 2006 to 2008 he was General Director of Legal Assistance to Victims of Violence of the Ministry of Justice of the Junta de Andalucía. He was also a government delegate against gender violence between 2008 and 2011.
As a forensic physician, Lorente has contributed to the texts prepared in collaboration with the Observatory the scientific perspective and the forensic medical analysis of the facts and circumstances studied. Among others, he is an expert in many of the annual reports published by the Observatory on the sentences passed in cases of homicides and murders of women committed within the couple and in the study on the application of the gender aggravating factor in sentences.
She has written numerous books on inequality between women and men and male violence, and has received several awards for her fight for women’s rights.