“We have to make a message that counteracts the negationist discourses because they are doing a lot of damage, especially in the steps we have been taking as a society, especially in young people and adolescents, where this message is falling too fast and we run the risk of taking a step backwards in terms of equality.”
The Head of the Coordination Unit Against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla, Laura Segura Sarompas, made this reflection in the program ‘Más de Uno’ of Onda Cero, where she valued the minutes of silence that are being carried out in all the Delegations and Subdelegations of the Government of the country as a rejection of the machista murders.
“The minutes of silence are symbolic, with this act we talk about a reality that is hidden and that we put on the table so that we raise awareness among the greatest number of people in our country,” he said.
Segura has pointed out that during the past year 2024, 48 women have been murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners, which means, practically, one murder every six days in our country.
However, the Head of Unit has glimpsed a reduction in the number of murders, given that, in January, we had a case of a murdered woman. “The media had been a woman murdered every six days, despite the terrible reality, which is that women continue to be murdered in our country in contexts of gender violence, we have to value the resources and make that launch to society, that resources, despite the terrible reality, are available to the victims of gender violence,” he said.
However, he stressed that, “since only one woman has been murdered in our country, we must continue to work intensively and take all necessary measures.”
Tools for equality
During the radio interview, Segura referred to the training talk on gender violence that Carmen Conde Abellán gave a few days ago at the Center for Adult People (ECA).
A formative action that has been the first training that has been done from the Coordination Unit against Gender Violence to faculty cloisters and that Segura has proposed to the different centers to be able to go to each of the cloisters and be able to carry out these awareness actions.
“We are very clear that the prevention of gender violence must also be addressed to teachers,” he said. “We do it with the students, we have also done it with families, but we know that training teachers goes beyond the sensitivity that each one has, as well as the individual training that teachers are doing in terms of gender violence and equality,” he explained.
“We know that we have to work in these spaces, undoubtedly, to eradicate violence and to prevent it, but also so that the education professionals have tools, so that they know how to act when situations of violence occur since, sometimes, they also need these indications, how to do the tests, what steps they must take and how to do it in the most effective way possible, that does not imply at any time any risk for the victims…”, he said.
In the words of Segura “everything that has to do with education on equality and the prevention of violence is not something transversal as such, but it has to permeate the educational curriculum, which is also urged by the laws themselves, both in education and in legislation on gender violence, which also speaks of the importance of educational centers as a fundamental element in prevention and in action”.
Something, he has apostilled that it is also included in the State Pact against Gender Violence. “The measures that refer to education in the State Pact itself are very many and we are very clear that we must also transmit this to teachers, that they are not afraid to work for equality, that equality is law, and that they have the tools to do it well and with all the foundation in terms of data, in terms of the concepts of gender violence, how gender violence occurs...”, he said.