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The Councillor for Women, Cristina García-Vaso presented Monday at a press conference the activities planned by the municipal area that leads to commemorate the November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

It has developed a program, as he said, that focuses on this day to raise awareness against this social scourge that is gender violence and to honor all women who are victims of any form of violence gender, especially those who lost their lives for this cause.

García-Vaso noted that this year has increased by 100, about the number of women in situations of gender violence that have needed to be served by municipal services Cieza.

On the other hand stressed that it has become, in the activities planned this year, more emphasis on educating for equality and against machismo young people ciezanos schools in line with the studies of the experts indicate that, as in adolescence, can begin to hatch behavior which insults the dignity of young women and ultimately desemboquen in violence.

The councilor, who reported to this, the start information campaigns in schools and colleges as well as a new counseling service for battered women in Murcia implemented by the Autonomous Community, but whose range can be extended to the rest of the Region , he wanted to make clear that the activities against gender violence will adhere not only to commemorate scheduled for November 25, but continue to be made throughout the year.

These activities will be developed in the coming days have been developed and agreed within the Municipal Council of Women, in which the own Department of Women and Equality involved, the various associations of local women, schools secondary of the population, the political groups represented in the Municipal Corporation and trade unions represented in the City Council MGN.

The activities begin on November 24 with a radio program against gender violence Onda Cieza at 10.30 hours and half hour before Cadena Cope.

On November 25, at 10 am, there will be an official ceremony at the Jaime Balmes College against gender violence in education, with reading manifestos made by students, reading institutional manifesto of the Autonomous Region Murcia against gender violence, delivered to the center of the protocol in cases of violence against women in education, sharing among students in violentómetros, minute of silence for the deaths of women from domestic violence and release of purple balloons and tie human.

This act is intended to make each year in a school in the town rotatably.

That same day, at 19 hours.

In the Plaza de San Juan Bosco, a march against gender violence which will run to the corner of Convent in honor of those killed in domestic violence starts.

On arrival at the Convent corner, reading the manifesto institutional Autonomous Region of Murcia against gender violence will take place and candles will be lit in tribute to all the victims.

The day will conclude with a concert against gender violence by the 'Quintet Lauds Manuel Lopez Villalba', in the very corner of the Convent at 19.30

Besides these activities, the Department of Women and Equality will collaborate with Red Cross in an activity to be held on December 12 at the Cultural Hall of Cajamurcia, after 19 hours;

it is an exhibition of different types of violence suffered by women, prepared by the staff CAVI.

Furthermore, the City will continue to violentómetro awareness campaign, which this year has been expanded with the completion of posters bind to bookmark the previous year.

Finally, Cristina García-Vaso also reported the agreement reached in the local coordination committee against gender violence, which have joined for the first time representatives of schools, to soon develop training and awareness activities with teachers of the various centers, in order that they work with appropriate gender violence among students tools.

These actions have already been concluded with the Jaime Balmes College with the intention of later continue in other schools in the locality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza