The government delegate in Extremadura, Francisco Mendoza, participated on Wednesday in the presentation of the “Meninas 2023” Awards, where he expressed that social awareness is fundamental to continue advancing in this fight after learning about the first published European survey on gender violence.
In this survey, explained Mendoza, one in four women is aware of having suffered some kind of physical or psychological violence during their lives by their partners or ex-partners. In other words, women themselves have a higher level of awareness and perception of violent behavior towards themselves.
And the other, “very important”, the delegate said, is that the awareness of being a victim of gender violence has doubled in younger women.
Mendoza has expressed thanks to the three winners for their example of combating gender violence, in addition to developing an immense work to raise awareness of this problem throughout society.
The government delegate concluded that “we must continue with the same commitment and in the hope that things are changed and that, together, we will be able to leave our young people a more egalitarian world, more just and free of all gender violence.”
2,215 active cases in Extremadura
Currently in Extremadura there are 2,215 active cases within the VioGen system (1,224 in the province of Badajoz and 991 in the province of Cáceres) and 1,500 women have police protection measures.
Of these 2,215 women, 447 victims are active users of the ATENPRO system and 69 women have some active electronic tracking device.
Acknowledgements “Meninas 2023”
In this edition, the decorations have fallen to Juana Merino Marceñido, Lawyer of the Administration of Justice of the Violence against Women Court No. 1 of Badajoz; Maria José Pulido Pérez, teacher and former equality councillor of the City of Cáceres and Purification Salas Méndez, lawyer and currently adviser on issues of equality and gender violence of the Government delegation in Extremadura. All of them for their work and involvement in the fight against male violence, the protection of minors and the awareness of work and family life.
In addition to the three decorations, the Government Delegation has delivered four Special Mentions, which have fallen on: José María Escobar Bazaga, Deputy Inspector of the National Police of Badajoz in the Family and Women Unit; posthumously for Marcelino Gil García, Captain of the Civil Guard in the Organic Judicial Police Unit of Cáceres; Marcial Flores Morón, Local Police of Plasencia in the Women and Minors section and the Equal Rights section of eldiario.es Extremadura.
The event was attended by 12 students from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Cáceres, where they premiered a piece of contemporary dance entitled “Meninas Libres”. This work has been made expressly for the delivery of these awards, created by the playwright Marce Solís and with the choreographies of the professors Amparo Jiménez and Maria Adelina Sánchez.