The Government Delegation hosted this morning the first session of the training ‘The General Administration of the State as Violet Point’ aimed at the staff of the AGE in Melilla. This programme aims to provide basic training on violence against women and information on how to deal with a case of male violence and on the resources of the State and the autonomous regions.
The head of the Government Delegation, Sabrina Moh, has presented this training day that is carried out following the signing of the Protocol extending the Violet Point to a dozen areas of the General Administration of the State.
The Government Delegate has stressed the importance of continuing to “extend and make available to citizens mechanisms and tools to provide these safe spaces.” In addition, he has expressed that society must reject those who exercise this type of violence, “because in the end it is not only a problem of the person who suffers it, but of society in general.”
Moh has highlighted the work done by the Coordination Unit against Violence Against Women and has highlighted the “involvement, sensitivity and empathy” of the Head of Unit, Laura Segura, in carrying out the work “important and essential for the whole society and for the protection of victims.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has stressed the convenience of AGE personnel being trained and knowing what procedures must be followed in a case of violence. “It is important that we visit the issue, that we sensitize society and that, if we witness any of these causes, we are not complicit,” he said.
In her speech, the Head of the Unit, Laura Segura, stressed the importance of this training day because “sometimes there are many doubts and ignorance about how to act in cases of gender violence”. “We’re talking about critical and tense times when we can do things that can re-victimize women and even put them at risk.”
Segura has assured that this is a “State problem”, being one “of the main problems we have as a society”. “We are a little more than half of the population in our country, and yet an average of 60 women a year are still murdered in Spain,” he lamented.
In this regard, he has revealed that every year there are 199,000 complaints in our country for gender violence and that “it only arises what is wrong when a woman is murdered.” “We have to ask ourselves what is wrong when a woman suffers gender-based violence because she is a woman, because the other is when we arrive late,” she said.
“The idea of this day is to raise awareness, raise awareness with data, with content, with theory, so that the issue is known in depth and to offer all possible arguments when working and extending the Violeta Point in the Administration and as its staff,” he said.