The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, accompanied by the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, today presided over the award of the Menina 2023 recognitions, which the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands awards on the occasion of the 25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The event, held in the Throne Room of the Government Delegation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the presence of civil and military authorities, was also attended by the Government’s sub-delegates in Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Teresa Mayans and Javier Plata, respectively. “From the Government of Spain we express our absolute rejection of all forms of male violence, a structural violence that is the cruellest expression of discrimination, the situation of inequality and the power relations of men over women.