| The mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar joins the activities programmed by the Department of Social Welfare, with the reading of the Institutional Manifesto for the Elimination of Violence Against Women | The current health crisis has not allowed this year to carry out the public act in which today, November 25, the reading of the official manifesto for the Elimination of Violence against Women by the mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitación Martinez.Despite this, the mayor has joined the activities programmed by the Department of Social Welfare, recording and spreading through social networks a message of attention on the need not to turn away from abuse, and asking for responsibility and compliance of measures that seek to slow down the spread of the virus and improve the response capacity of health systems, with the eradication of behaviors that reproduce and perpetuate inequality and with the protection of those who suffer its consequences.It has also had an impact on prevention and education based on values ??of equality, as the best way to avoid violence in adult relationships and generate an attitude of rejection of any type of abuse.The mayor concluded by recalling that "currently we are all aware that we are living through a very difficult historical moment, in which efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 force confinement measures that have put and endanger women already their daughters and sons, who suffer double confinement, increasing the power and control of those who turn homes into unsafe places "for that reason, Visitación Martínez has influenced the commitment to continue developing, within the scope of our competencies and in application of current legislation, an active, comprehensive and coordinated regional policy in favor of equality and against violence against women.During this week, the Department of Social Welfare, has developed different scheduled activities on the occasion of November 25 such as the installation of "violet points", located in the two institutes of the town, workshops with the "Gypsy Development" program aimed at women, awareness-raising on coeducation: "educating to love", activities such as flash mobs, videos, etc.
in collaboration with the local educational centers and different spaces on this issue on the municipal radio station "Radio Pinatar".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar