The Delegation of the Government of Spain in La Rioja will recognize in the XI edition of the Meninas 2023 Awards the work team of the PRIA Program, for its approach to gender violence in the penitentiary center of Logroño; the Platform 8 of March, as a mobilizing agent and catalyst of the main actions carried out in the region to make visible gender violence and inequality; and Ángeles Espinosa, Rioja journalist involved in showing the reality of women in the world.
The Government Delegation in La Rioja considers that these three winners deserve a Menina in recognition of the value of intervention to prevent gender violence and for involvement in the fight, visibility and denunciation of male violence.
This award, promoted by the Government Delegation for Gender Violence under the Ministry of Equality, is aimed at organizations, institutions and individuals committed to the eradication of violence against women and is part of the commemorative events of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November.
The Meninas 2023 recognitions will be delivered next Thursday, November 23, at 6:00 pm, at the Centro de la Cultura del Rioja in Logroño.
Recognitions 2023
The first Menina is awarded to the work team responsible for the Program for Intervention for Aggressors of Gender Violence (PRIA) in the penitentiary center of Logroño.
The treatment programme for inmates who have committed crimes of gender violence was first implemented in the penitentiary field as a pilot experience between 2001 and 2002 and has been carried out in the penitentiary centre of Logroño for more than ten years by a multidisciplinary team composed of psychologists, educators, social workers and jurists.
The objective is to develop an intensive therapeutic program of cognitive behavioral perspective that includes, among its main approaches, that of the gender perspective. To this end, it is intended to intervene in the risk variables that affect gender violence to avoid and minimize the risk of new attacks.
The second Menina is awarded to the Platform 8 de Marzo, a collective made up of UGT, CCOO, USO, IU, PSOE and the Association of Progressive Rioja Women. Established in 1996, it has become the reference of the feminist movement in La Rioja by bringing together the main public and private actors of civil society, such as trade unions, political groups or associative and women’s movements.
The March 8 Platform acts as a mobilizing agent and catalyst for the main actions carried out in Rioja to make visible the gender violence and structural inequality to which women are subjected.
In this sense, it highlights its proactive role not only in the organization and commemoration of the acts carried out on November 25 and March 8, but also in the visibility of all those acts that require a forceful condemnation of the structural inequality between women and men that exists in our societies and, which has its greatest expression in male violence.
In turn, the platform seeks to show its firm commitment to equality, as a matter of democratic quality, working on the consolidation of advances and on a more just feminist horizon.
The third and final award is given to the Riojan journalist Ángeles Espinosa, a former correspondent for the newspaper El País who specialized in the Arab and Islamic world.
For three decades, Ángeles Espinosa has reported on the reality of women in the Arab world, through religious and cultural impositions, legislative changes, new governments and slow and insufficient advances that have not mitigated the situation of extreme inequality. The global feminist struggle must be coordinated with the local feminist struggle and the work Ángeles Espinosa is a clear example of how to make this objective visible, as well as its insistence on highlighting that, despite the achievements achieved, there are still more objectives that we have to achieve.
Espinosa was awarded the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award in 2002 and 2003, and the International Press Club Award for Best Spanish Journalistic Work Abroad in 2003. In addition, in 2011 he received the Víctor de la Serna Prize awarded by the Press Association of Madrid and in 2021 the XIV Julio Anguita Parrado Prize for International Journalism. She has also been honored with the Order of Civil Merit.