Vigo became the first stop in the province of Pontevedra of the exhibition ‘Amigo, dáte conta’, organized by the Government Delegation in Galicia and framed in the programming of activities throughout the year on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The exhibition presents, through information posters and cartoons, attitudes related to male violence, mainly in the area of the couple, to raise awareness among the newest population.
The government delegate, Pedro Blanco, explained at the inauguration that the initiative seeks to focus on the awareness of youth, “who is building the society of the future, in which there should be no room for male violence.” Accompanied by the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, the deputy delegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, the delegate stressed that Vigo is the first city in the province of Pontevedra to host this exhibition “demonstrating that it is an exemplary city when it comes to working on equality and in the fight against gender violence, as well as in the protection of victims, with the collaboration between National and Local Police within the framework of the VioGén system”.
‘Amigo, dáte conta’ can be visited during the coming weeks in the Plaza del Rei in Vigo. It consists of six prisms that recreate daily conversations through a language close to youth, with informative posters and cartoons that reflect attitudes and realities of male violence, especially in the context of the couple.
The drawings reflect situations and behaviors of contempt, machismo, psychological violence, emotional abuse and obsession. In addition to the cartoons, in the exhibition you can read several sentences with data on violence from the study ‘The situation of violence against women in adolescence in Spain’, carried out by the Ministry of Equality on a sample of more than 13,000 people aged 14 to 20 years.
Pedro Blanco recalled that, so far this year, 4 women were killed by their partners or exparellas in Galicia victims of male violence and that in our community there are 5,791 active cases in the VioGén system. “These are scandalous figures that we cannot allow, but in the government we are very clear that we are not going to stop until we achieve an egalitarian, inclusive and fair society. This exhibition responds to this objective,” he concluded.