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Socialist Councillor Lucia Sanchez praised today as "positive" comprehensive law against gender violence is about to celebrate its first five years of operation.
Sanchez said that this legislation has been "indispensable" for the social awareness against these crimes and to ensure the protection of victims of abuse and to delve into "respect and dignity they deserve."
According to the mayor, at this time, social awareness campaigns have borne fruit and the enormous resources that the Act has been provided have been crucial to minimize the catastrophic effects of this terrible scourge.
While he said that like any law you want to be effective "should be run and be supplemented and refined in the light of data that show us the results of its application."
For now, this year sees a decline in the number of female viciously murdered at the hands of their partners or former partners from 2008.
Sanchez said that can not be overlooked that there are messages, patents or buried in the family, in education, media, advertising, television, video games, etc., "Which are relaying an image Women's deeply denigrating their role and status in society that despises and void, that the responsible, almost, of all evils, maintaining a feminine stereotype cruel and unacceptable. "
He said that this picture, "distorted and malicious" in the deepest cove of young people who are forming their personality and makes them play so terrible violence, which leads to the age of abusers and victims is getting smaller and that abuse cases have increased in the age groups below 30 years.
Therefore, taking advantage of the celebration tomorrow of the International Day Against Violence Against Women, the council urged the National Government to continue to apply with the same diligence as the Comprehensive Urgent Measures against Gender Violence, while calling for the "fair "Collaboration of the Autonomous Region and the Municipality of Lorca, in the framework of their powers, available to women victims all possible resources, implementing comprehensive network definitely care and support to women victims of violence gender, no differences in all the Spanish territory.
The socialist mayor also asked the Autonomous Community and the City, together with the Municipal School Board and the municipality AMPAS, promote educational measures in relation to equality of opportunity between men and women and to raise awareness against gender violence activities that the City Council said it "should also encourage partnerships between youth groups and the municipality."
Sanchez said "not understanding" that the Government of Valcárcel refuses to sign the cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs for the implementation of a single telephone number, 016, serving women victims of gender violence .
Likewise also approved that the PP mayor, Francisco Jodar, do not sign the Convention to implement the Protocol in the municipality of collaboration and coordination between the Security Forces of the State and local police to protect victims domestic violence and gender, an agreement approved by Full Council a year ago at the request of the PSOE.
Budgets of the Autonomous Community
Lucia Sanchez also reported that the Municipal Socialist Group has called on Members of the PSOE in the Regional Assembly to submit amendments to the budgets of the Autonomous Region for 2010 in order to increase the resources allocated to the Care of Victims of Gender Violence deemed " absolutely insufficient to Lorca. "
He recalled that the departure of 48,000 euros, has been "frozen" for this exercise.
On the contrary, the Government Office for Gender Violence under the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has increased the resources allocated for this purpose by almost 10%.
Also, the mayor announced that he will again request that the Association of Women 'New Life' has a separate room to develop their activities are related to the eradication of gender violence.
Finally, since the PSOE again demand that women of the deputation of Purias may also have a specific location for the association and other groups that now are limited in their action for lack of space.
In this regard, said that it is a neighborhood petition based on the needs of the women's association in Puri, the association of residents of San Pedro and Santa Ana and AMPA in the hamlet, which claimed three years ago this infrastructure without which it has been answered by either the City or the region.
Source: PSOE de Lorca
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