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The Mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitación Martínez, and the Councilor for Social Welfare, Francisca Pelegrín, today presided over the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is celebrated on November 25.
During the ceremony, held this morning in the Plaza Luis Molina, in front of the City Hall, purple ties have been distributed and a minute of silence has been kept in memory of the 40 women who died in 2016 due to gender violence.
At the ceremony, which included representatives of the Municipal Corporation, local associations, municipal workers, neighbors and students of the institutes Manuel Tárraga Escribano and Dos Mares.
The mayor has read the institutional manifesto, which this year is a wake-up call on the need to protect the most vulnerable groups, adolescents and women with disabilities.
Thus, he stressed that it is necessary to combine efforts to prevent and respond to young girls immersed in toxic relationships,
Foster healthy relationships and instill values ​​of equality during childhood and adolescence, as the best way to prevent violence in adult relationships, and generate an attitude of rejection to any type of abuse.
"Inadequate use of information technologies is giving rise to new manifestations of abuse in adolescence, such as cyberbullying, sexting and other formulas under which women are threatened and invaded. Day-to-day realities in relationships between adolescents, "he explained.
On the other hand, the Councilor for Social Welfare has recalled that the City Council is working daily in the training of professionals, prevention with risk groups and the intervention of families within which gender violence occurs and has affected That only through a shared responsibility of citizens and public authorities can this violence be definitively eradicated.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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