2023-09-13 10:51:43
The Government delegate in Castilla y León, Virginia Barcones, announced today in Segovia the call to access the Meninas 2023 awards, which reward the work carried out against gender violence. The awards ceremony will take place on November 25. At the same time, the delegate held a working meeting with the heads of the units against Violence against Women of the nine subdelegations of Castilla y León.
The Meninas Awards is the eleventh edition of recognitions that value the work and achievements of individuals, groups, entities and institutions that stand out or have stood out for their contribution to the prevention and/or eradication of violence against women.
They are strictly honorary recognitions that reward:
• Accredited actions in awareness and sensitization work.
• Pioneering actions in prevention.
• Promotion and development of programs aimed at eradication.
• Promotion and promotion of programs regarding assistance, protection and recovery of women victims of any type of violence, as well as their sons and daughters.
• Carrying out training actions on equality between women and men.
• Be a reference in its field of action for women who suffer gender violence.
• And the development of awareness-raising actions on equality that contribute to the promotion of new models of social relationships.
In total, the Government Delegation and the subdelegations of the nine provinces of Castilla y León grant eleven recognitions:
• A Menina at the proposal of each of the Government subdelegations. Therefore, nine, one per province. Last year, the Menina in the province of Segovia went to the IES Giner de los Ríos due to the involvement of its management team and the motivation and awareness of the students in the fight against sexist violence.
• An autonomous Menina proposed by the Government Delegation. The one in 2022 was for the Association of Feminist Journalists of Castilla y León.
• To these ten proposals can be added a Menina Honor Award like the one that actress Lola Herrera received in last year’s edition.
The opening of the call for the presentation of candidatures takes place this week and will last until mid-October. From the respective subdelegations, proposals of candidates from their territorial area will be requested from universities, the Prosecutor’s Office, Social Services Management, Press Associations, Departments of Women or Equality, Social Services areas of the provincial councils and, of course, associations or entities. who work on gender violence.
Once the deadline for submitting candidatures has expired, a provincial jury will choose a shortlist of people, associations or entities that will be submitted as a proposal to the meeting of the regional jury that I am honored to preside over.
This jury, which will be a reflection at the regional level of the provincial juries, is made up of the nine subdelegates of the Government, the heads of the Violence against Women Unit, the coordinator of the Units against violence against Women of the Government Delegation, the Chief of Police and the head of the XII Zone of the Civil Guard.
The presentation of these awards will take place in the Burgos town of Miranda de Ebro around November 25. This year, that day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, falls on a Saturday.
During the working meeting with those responsible for the units against Violence against Women of the nine subdelegations of Castilla y León, the results of the campaign of the Government Delegation in Castilla y León were preliminarily assessed. Be free. To be alive’. “We will make a more detailed assessment when the campaign time frame ends, in three weeks. But from the information we are receiving, it is being effective,” explained the Government delegate, who added that this summer has had “nothing to do,” with the previous summer, for example, with last summer’s fear of the puncture. chemical submission.
‘Be free. Being alive’ is a comprehensive campaign that does not only pursue awareness of this atrocious social stigma through information. It goes further because it delves into prevention, with the support of security forces and bodies, in the identification and arrest of perpetrators of crimes against women and in caring for victims.
Local safety meetings have been and are being held (there are still towns and cities celebrating) with the town councils organizing the festive events. They are boards co-chaired by the subdelegates with the mayors and in which the security forces and bodies are present: Civil Guard or National Police and Local Police. In addition to other institutions or entities if it is considered necessary, such as the Red Cross, medical services, firefighters or civil protection, to give some examples.
Among the security actions that the subdelegates have not overlooked in any case are those related to combating sexist violence.
An essential element of this awareness-raising work is the Violet Point, a physical space with information guides, educational materials and identified people who are prepared in the fight against sexist violence. It is an instrument promoted by the Government of Spain to involve society as a whole in the fight against sexist violence and to massively distribute the information necessary to know how to act in a case of violence against women.
Public policies against sexist violence now have another focus since they position this scourge as a structural problem that requires the involvement of society as a whole to put an end to it. The implication that is intended to be achieved finds its light in those violet points that remind in all mass events that violence against women “because it is committed by men who, also because of the fact of being men, feel superior, is a “a problem of the highest magnitude that we cannot continue to tolerate for even a moment longer.”
This lighthouse that is the violet dots also serves to bring comprehensive services closer to victims and to provide information on how to act in a case of sexist violence.
During these festive weeks, emphasis has been placed on deterrence through the conspicuous presence of national police and civil guards in uniform, even with all the predicaments of specialized units on horseback, with dogs, drones or intervention units. “In coercion, with the presence of plainclothes agents who can stop sexist behavior. And in the identification and arrest of the perpetrators of the crimes if, unfortunately, they occur,” added the Government delegate.
‘Be free. Estar Viva’ has been present at the main music festivals that have toured Castilla y León during the summer. We are talking, for example, about the Sonorama Ribera de Aranda de Duero with 150,000 accumulated visitors; from the Soria Water Enclave, with about 40,000; the 40th SummerLive in Simancas, with 7,000 people; of the Ebrofest in Miranda de Ebro, which was attended by about 20,000 people.
It will continue to be in festivals that have not yet been held, such as the Monoloco Fest that will bring together some 10,000 young people in León on October 7. Yes, young people, because they are the majority at these events and that is why the campaign focused primarily on them.
To these presences at festivals we must add those that have taken place on special days such as the Medieval Days of Ávila, which bring together more than 100,000 people.
Likewise, the patron saint festivals of cities and towns. I mention some such as the festivals of Palencia, Astorga in the province of León or Miranda de Ebro in Burgos, among others. In almost all of them there was the collaboration of the town councils and these town councils also had the collaboration of the Government Delegation. Virginia Barcones has clarified that “almost”, because last week the “unusual situation” occurred in which the Ponferrada City Council, in León, did not want to place violet points in its main events “and, furthermore, did not allow the Subdelegation de León we made up for this lack by placing our own violet dots. “He did not grant us the required authorization.”
In this sense, the Government delegate reiterated her gratitude to the members of the Platform against Sexist Violence of El Bierzo and Laciana “for their commitment and collaboration when distributing the campaign material among those attending the three musical events.” most multitudinous of these Ponferrada festivals.”
“We cannot allow and we are not going to allow those denialist discourses of gender violence that have taken hold in some institutions. Against sexist violence, not a step back. There is a lot at stake. The lives of many women are at stake,” added Barcones. The delegate recalled that Spain has experienced a “tragic summer” with 15 women murdered between July and August by their partner or ex-partner. One of them in Castilla y León, in Béjar (Salamanca).
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