The Head of the Coordination Unit Against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla, Laura Segura Sarompas, is addressing the prevention and detection of gender violence in the city’s educational centers.
This is another edition of the talks of the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of Security in Educational Centers and their Environments that have been developed for years from the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) and that are taught from the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla.
The talks, which started this Monday, have already been given at the IES ‘Enrique Nieto’, ‘Juan Antonio Fernández Pérez’, ‘Virgen de la Victoria’, and the school ‘La Salle-El Carmen’ to different groups of 4th of the ESO.
As explained by Segura, the Master Plan covers different contents, one of its objectives being the prevention of behaviours of discrimination based on sex or sexual discrimination and the prevention of gender violence.
These training courses are aimed at fourth-year students from ESO, Vocational Training and Training Cycles and will be developed over the next few months in all the centres of the city.
In these workshops Segura works on the prevention of gender violence, being fundamental that the students are able to perceive the uniqueness of this violence and that they understand that the origin is in machismo and inequality.
The objective is that the students recognize the first signs of violence and, in this way, prevent future violent behaviors and in turn detect those that may already be occurring. Another of the main objectives of this plan is to increase the prevention of risks associated with new digital technologies or cyberbullying, since social networks and digital services introduce new forms of gender violence.
In short, among the main contents are providing general information to adolescents about gender violence, digital gender violence or cybergender violence, trafficking and exploitation of human beings and prevention of sexual crimes. At the same time, it aims to promote values of respect, tolerance and equality between women and men, as well as to encourage the filing of complaints in cases of sexual and gender violence.
Segura has pointed out that the students in these workshops are being very participative and they are showing a lot of interest, “creating a space for change and awareness that is so important in these ages”; and at the same time it is intended that, with the work that is done in these talks, the students act as a motor of transformation in their environments.