The Government Delegation welcomed this morning the signing of the Protocol extending the Violet Point to a dozen areas of the General State Administration (AGE).
The head of the Government Delegation, Sabrina Moh, and the different people at the head of a dozen areas of the AGE have committed themselves, with this agreement, to give training to the personnel who are at the service of the citizenship of the different departments, to have a person of reference and to have visible the badges of the Violeta Point, which have a QR code with all the resources of the State and Autonomics against gender violence and information on this matter.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has stressed the importance of this tool being deployed in different parts of the city and creating “safe space for women”. “Last Friday we had a meeting with hoteliers and nightlife professionals so that they could also join this initiative and that, among all of us, we could express our rejection of all kinds of violence against women,” he said.
“Today we do it with the General Administration of the State, because from this Government Delegation we have to continue working and joining forces, we have to continue coordinating all the tools and instruments that are necessary to eradicate this scourge,” he said.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has made clear that “we want them to see us as that ally, as that important figure to continue advancing in this fight and to continue providing the necessary policies and tools to end the machista violence that affects us as a society and that we must make them visible”.
Maxime, he said, at a time when “many hate speeches and denial speeches of male violence are emerging and we have seen how we have had a hard weekend on this issue and therefore we have to reject all kinds of male violence and we have to reject it from unity and coordination.”
Moh has valued the work done by the Coordination Unit against Violence Against Women and has thanked all the people, institutions, and organizations “who collaborate day by day so that this fight is a struggle of all and of all and we can eradicate this scourge as soon as possible.”
Safe spaces
In her speech, the Head of the Unit, Laura Segura, stressed the importance of these offices, in which citizens are cared for, becoming safe spaces because “women also pass through these spaces and, therefore, the victims of gender violence also pass.” “What we do is make effective the commitment of the Government of Spain to make public resources and public services available to victims of gender violence,” he said.
As he said, all women victims of gender violence go through the health area or, at some point in their lives, they carry out a procedure in some space of the General Administration of the State and “the idea is that these spaces can be safe spaces for women, where there are reference staff who know what the resources of gender violence are, who have the key tools to be able to listen to them, accompany them and to act and activate risk mechanisms, in case situations of violence could be eminent”.
Segura has pointed out that the commitment is that different entities of the AGE as well as the rest of the spaces of the city will add to having the badge in a visible space, to have trained personnel and to have a person of reference. For its part, the Delegation undertakes to keep all those who are joining this initiative informed and to train these professionals.
Involve the whole society
The Head of Unit has pointed out that what it is about is moving forward in this network of spaces that has been convinced that it will represent a step forward in what it has to do as a society’s response to male violence. “What we want to do is also involve the rest of society in this violence, which is a structural violence and make the citizens aware of the need to commit themselves,” he said.
Thus, he recalled the campaign launched by the Ministry of Equality on the need to involve society in this violence and that we can no longer maintain silence as a society. “It cannot be only the victims who act,” he stressed, since they and the children are suffering from this scourge.
“We want to join that ‘you are not alone’ and continue to move forward so that not only Administrations, but the citizens themselves, a person, can also be a helping hand and we are not sometimes aware of how important is the support we can provide to the victims at a specific time,” he said.
This morning the Provincial Director of Education, Juan Ángel Berbel; the Territorial Director of the Imserso, Verónica Aznar; the Provincial Director of the SEPE, Jorge Vera; the Provincial Director of the Social Institute of the Navy, Pedro Pajares; the Director of the Penitentiary Center, Francisco Rebollo; the Head of the Labor Inspection in Melilla, Saturnino Martínez; the Delegate of the State Tax Administration in Melilla, Francisco Rebollo; the Head of the Traffic, Jose