About 200 people, mostly women, have focused this afternoon at the gates of the City of Murcia, under the banner hung from balconies celebration commemorating the city as a tribute to victims of gender violence in Spain.
This act is the main program this week organized by the Department of Equal Opportunity, on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to be held today, November 25.
Before reading the manifesto institutional, Mayor Patricia Fernandez, recalled the number of victims of male violence so far this year and attended by abuse cases is also in Murcia and rising to 251 for 4 years , which opened the municipal CAVI (Specialty Care Center for Women Victims of Gender Violence).
He also said that "what to avoid is just that commemorate a day to remember that deaths are still occurring male violence. We need to continue instilling and educating younger violently that nothing is achieved and that equality is a duty and a right that all citizens of the world. "
Then, three female voices (an adult woman, a young girl and a girl) read each of the sections of the Manifesto Institutional Gender Violence, edited and distributed by the Autonomous Community to be made public in all municipalities the Region.
Finally, all participants observed a minute of silence in tribute to victims of gender violence in the world.
Before the typical distributed white ribbons reminders of the day between the concentrates.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena