Toledo. The Government Delegation in Castilla-La Mancha has included among its services to the citizen a Violet Point of information and guidance for women who have felt attacked, harassed or discriminated against or who have suffered male violence.
The government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has staged the implementation of this service together with the head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women, Consuelo García, and the head of the Unit against Violence against Women in the Subdelegation of the Government of Toledo, Eva María García.
Milagros Tolón has pointed out that equality and gender violence “is something that challenges all of us, each one from his or her sphere of responsibility and action”. In this sense, the Violet Points facilitate the attention to the victims and also the denunciation of any type of harassment or abuse.
“What we do is comply with the commitment of the Government of Spain, putting public resources at the disposal of equality and the fight against gender violence as the most abject manifestation of inequality,” said the government delegate.
For the Government of Spain “the fight against gender violence is a transversal task of all its management that seeks the involvement of each and every one of the ministries”, said Milagros Tolón, who stressed the need to continue working to break “the silence that on numerous occasions surrounds violence against women”.
The Violeta Point is an instrument promoted by the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence and to spread, in a massive way, the information necessary to know how to act in a case of violence against women.
Safe environments
The goal is to create safe environments for victims of gender-based violence. They are a symbol, a signal for women to know that this establishment, place, association or person is at their disposal to listen to it and accompany it, and knows the resources of integral care.
It is also an informative resource, a guide for the environment of the victims with which co-workers, class, merchants with whom they usually deal, friends, family, neighbors, etc. They can get information on how to act.
It is part of the catalogue of urgent measures of the Improvement and Modernization Plan promoted by different ministries of the Government of Spain and represents a change of focus in public policies of attention to victims, placing male violence as a structural problem that requires the involvement of the whole of society to put an end to it.
Training
In this way, the personnel of the units of the Government Delegation with direct attention to the public receive training to be able to guide and inform the victims, inform them of the resources available to them and refer them to the corresponding services.
In addition to training, the service, which will also be available in government subdelegations in Castilla-La Mancha, includes posters and a “Guide to action against male violence”, also downloadable through a QR code.
For the installation of Violeta Points in other institutions, the Delegation has signed agreements with the Ministry of Education, the College of Pharmacists, the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Alcalá in Guadalajara and a similar protocol will soon be concluded with the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE), so that its offices in Castilla-La Mancha can also constitute violeta points of care for victims of machista attacks.