The UNED today hosts a day of the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women on ‘Detection and Approach of Gender Violence’ aimed at NGOs, International Organizations and Associations working in the city.
“We are going to provide tools for collaboration, for homogeneous work, so that we can develop, above all, at the level of intervention, a joint work because the entities are fundamental and necessary,” stressed the Head of the Unit, Laura Segura, who explained that these organizations are those that are “on the street with the victims and have direct contact with them, they manifest to us those demands, those needs and are key parts in the intervention.”
The Day was held in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Celebrations and Equality, and it also includes workers from the Women’s Care Center and Shave the Children, who have also collaborated in the development of the organization.
As explained by Segura, it has 2 main presentations. The first of these, by the Social Worker of the Center for Attention to Women, María Gloria Caminos Fernández, and the Psychologist of the Center for Attention to Women, Ramón Lucas Ramón, on the attention and integral accompaniment to the victims of gender violence from the Center for Attention to Women, in which contents related to information to the victims will be addressed from the Center for Attention to Women, social and legal support, psychological attention and work orientation, as well as the resources existing in the city.
The second, on the Rights of Foreigners of Victims of Gender Violence, Trafficking in Human Beings and Other Crimes, by the Head of the Office of Foreigners of Melilla, Alejandro Alonsótegui Cotero, where he discusses the procedures for the application for authorization of temporary residence and work of women victims of gender violence, as well as the procedures on trafficking and sexual exploitation.
The last one, by Sarompas herself, on the latest advances in gender violence, trafficking and sexual exploitation, and will develop the situation of gender violence in Melilla, the latest measures in gender violence and other violence.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, and the Councilor for Equality, Elena Fernández Treviño, were in charge of inaugurating the day. The highest representative of the Government of the Nation in our city has valued days like today’s, because “in addition to providing tools to entities to better address this scourge, they also serve to raise awareness for the whole society.”
Moh, who has thanked the third sector for its involvement and work 365 days a year in the fight against gender violence, has ratified the commitment of the Government of Spain to real and effective equality between men and women and its willingness to collaborate in this fight with all administrations, institutions and entities.
The Minister of Equality, for her part, has referred to the services and policies that are carried out to advance equality and against male violence such as the Equality Plan, the future 24h Care and Information Center for victims of gender violence, located on the ground floor of the former Chamber of Commerce, family conciliation resources, educational actions and awareness-raising…