The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, presented today the campaign “Exploitation is violence” by placing a banner on the occasion of the International Day against Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Women, Girls and Children, accompanied by the head of the Unit of Violence against Women, Maria Luisa Castro. Through this action, it confirmed the Government ' s commitment to full and effective equality, working for the elimination of all forms of violence, especially sexual exploitation and trafficking.
The victims of sexual exploitation in Galicia amount to 26 seconds the data of the Ministry of the Interior of the year 2023, which also collects a total of 95 preventive inspections. Not that it covers arrests for crimes of sexual exploitation, they were made in the Galician community 8.
Thus, the subdelegate described this structural problem with an international dimension as “the slavery of the 21st century, which uses people as merchandise, with a clear impact on the most vulnerable women, an unquestionable violation of human rights.”
In this sense, he highlighted the work “of this Government, which has allocated more than 82 million euros since 2018 to combat violence against women in Galicia”.