The Government Delegation hosted this morning the second 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, agreements that have been materializing during the summer months.
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 continuous work during the 365 days of the year” of the Head of Unit, Laura Segura, in the performance of the “work to protect all people who need our protection”.
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.
In her speech, the Head of the Unit, Laura Segura, stressed the importance of this training day, after which attendees will be an active part and “agents against gender violence”. In this sense, he has assured that “people who have this training are already Violet Point itself”, and has clarified that the Violet Point does not refer exclusively to physical space.
“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 its staff,” he said.
Segura has stressed that the objective of the Unit is to improve the institutional response given to victims of gender violence in the face of all gender violence, which, she has clarified, is not limited only to those that occur in the context of the couple or the former couple, but includes trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, sexual violence or forced marriages. “We take care of all the violence women suffer just because they are women,” she said.
In this way, it has valued these training activities, “fruit of the collaborative work and the signing of the protocols with the different areas of the General Administration of the State”. “Training is key in the fight against gender-based violence,” she said.
Throughout these training days, Segura explained, attendees are approached to the different realities of gender violence and the various forms of violence against women through the data collected, which “are fundamental to know the reality”.