The Government Delegation in Melilla is working to sign different protocols of action with different areas and entities and thus extend to different points of the city the ‘Violeta Point’ campaign.
As explained by the Head of the Coordination Unit against Gender Violence of the Government Delegation, Laura Segura, “the objective is that more and more places in our city are safe spaces against gender violence.”
“Violet Dots are a symbol, a signal for women to know that this space, this office or person is at their disposal to listen to and accompany them, and that they know the resources of integral care,” he said.
In addition, Segura has made it clear that it is also an informational resource, “a guide so that the victims’ environment can obtain information on how to act.”
“The objective of the Government Delegation is to create safe environments for the victims of gender-based violence, whether in administrative procedures, in order to call for the provision of a service, in leisure spaces and in any daily activity.”
Through these protocols that the Delegation is finalizing and that are going to be signed soon with different entities and agencies “what we are going to do is comply with the commitment of the Government of Spain, putting public resources at the disposal of equality and the fight against gender violence as the most terrible manifestation of inequality”.
Segura recalled that the Violet Point is an instrument promoted by the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence and to spread, in a massive way, the information necessary to know how to act in a case of violence against women.
This tool is part of the catalogue of urgent measures of the Improvement and Modernization Plan promoted by different Ministries of the Government of Spain and represents a change of focus in public policies of care for victims, placing male violence as a structural problem that requires the involvement of the whole of society to put an end to it.