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Isabel Rodríguez defends training in equality and the dissemination of feminist content as the main bulwarks of prevention against male violence among youth

04/10/2024
Isabel Rodríguez defends training in equality and the dissemination of feminist content as the main bulwarks of prevention against male violence among youth

The inaugurated exhibition presents, through informative posters and cartoons, attitudes and realities of male violence to raise awareness among the newest population The Deputy Delegate of the Government in Lugo and the Mayor of Viveiro showed their commitment and support in the fight against gender violence, and the head of the Unit against Violence on Women explained each of the panels to the audience “Eradicating violence against women is a task of the whole society, but we must focus some of our actions on adolescence and youth because of the very negative impact that machismo is having in this age group.”

The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, today reaffirmed the importance of the dissemination of feminist content and education and training on equality as a barrier to sexist behaviors, especially among youth. This was assured during the presentation of the exhibition ‘Dáte Conta’, which can be visited in the municipal library of Viveiro, accompanied by the mayor, María Loureiro, the head of the Unit against Violence on Women, María Luisa Castro, and representatives of the municipal corporation.


In the presentation of the exhibition, the subdelegate put the accent on “an age group, adolescence and youth, which is leaving us with alarming figures before which we have a duty to act”, adding that “it is the task of everyone and everyone to change this, of course of the institutions, but also of society in general, of education, of culture, of the economy, and of all fields”.


She shared this vision with the councilor of the municipality, and in the course of the presentation, each of the panels that make up the sample were broken up, motivating the messages that are intended to be sent to the boys and girls to build healthy relationships based on equality.


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The exhibition presents, through information posters and cartoons, attitudes and realities of male violence, mainly in the area of the couple, to raise awareness among young people.


The drawings reflect situations and behaviors of devaluation, machismo, psychological violence, emotional abuse and obsession. In addition to the cartoons, in the exhibition you can read several sentences with data on these violence from the study A situation of violence against women in adolescence in Spain, carried out by the Ministry of Equality on a sample of more than 13,000 young people from 14 to 20 years.


Among these data, there are realities such as the fact that 4% of adolescent girls confess to having received messages through the Internet or on the mobile phone in which they are insulted, threatened, offended or frightened, or that one in ten young adolescents was isolated from their friends, controlled by their partner or incited to take part in sexual activities in which they did not want to participate.