The Government Delegation hosted this Thursday the fourth and last session of the training ‘The General Administration of the State (AGE) as Violeta Point’ aimed at the staff of the AGE in Melilla. The aim of this programme was to provide basic training in 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 stressed that more than 140 people have been trained through this program, which has been carried out since 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.
Moh has clarified that, although it is the last session of the conference, through the Coordination Unit against Violence Against Women, they will continue to expand information and training in each center. In addition, he recalled that hospitality and nightlife have also joined these initiatives.
The Government Delegate has stressed the importance of “continuing to implement the Violet Point” and “giving the visibility so necessary to raise awareness about this problem in society.” 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.”
“We want to continue to train, work and raise awareness that it is a real problem, that it exists, and that it affects the whole of society,” he said. “We are all necessary to eradicate male violence,” he said.
In her speech, the Head of the Coordination Unit against Violence Against Women, Laura Segura, stressed the importance of this training day, after which attendees will be an active part and “agents against gender violence”.
“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.
In fact, she has pointed out that it is essential that in each administration there are trained personnel and referents who know the reality of gender violence, as well as information and awareness resources. “Training is key in the fight against gender-based violence,” she said.
Throughout these training days, the participants have been brought closer 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”.
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The Government Delegation in Melilla started the Violet Points campaign in 2021 and, since then, has been adding more actions and entities to it.
Thus, during the summer months, the Provincial Directorate of Education, the Territorial Directorate of the Imserso, the Provincial Directorate of the SEPE, the Provincial Directorate of the Social Institute of the Navy, the Penitentiary Center, the Labour Inspectorate in Melilla, the Delegation of the State Tax Administration Agency in Melilla, the CETI, the Local Traffic Headquarters, the Territorial Directorate of the Ingesa, the Territorial Directorate of MUFACE, the Provincial Directorate of Social Security (TGSS) and Social Security Delegation.