The talks of the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of Security in Educational Centers and their Environments that are being developed from the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) and that are taught from the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla, concluded yesterday, Tuesday.
The Master Plan has covered different contents, one of its objectives being the prevention of behaviours of discrimination based on sex or sexual discrimination and the prevention of gender violence.
These trainings have been aimed at fourth year students from ESO, Vocational Training and Training Cycles and have been developed between the months of February, March, April and May by all the centers of the city, doing workshops in about 40 groups.
In these workshops, developed by the head of the Unit, Laura Segura, the prevention of gender violence has been worked on, being fundamental that the students are able to perceive the uniqueness of this violence and understand that the origin is in machismo and inequality.
The objective is that the students recognize the first signs of violence and, in this way, prevent future violent behaviors and in turn detect those that may already be occurring. Another of the main objectives of this plan is to increase the prevention of risks associated with new digital technologies or cyberbullying, since social networks and digital services introduce new forms of gender violence.
In short, among the main contents are providing general information to adolescents about gender violence, digital gender violence or cybergender violence, trafficking and exploitation of human beings and prevention of sexual crimes. At the same time, it aims to promote values of respect, tolerance and equality between women and men, as well as to encourage the filing of complaints in cases of sexual and gender violence.
Segura has pointed out that the students in these workshops have been very participative and have shown a lot of interest, “creating a space for change and awareness that is so important in these ages”; and at the same time it has been intended that, with the work that has been done in these talks, the students act as a motor of transformation in their environments.