Every 25th of November, the world commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Mijas, as every year, will also join the fight to eradicate this social scourge. This year, the Mijas Town Hall is presenting an extensive programme of activities against male violence, focused on young people: “We are going to try to convey this situation to young people, as we are concerned about the situations that are occurring in their area, where unfortunately it seems that there is still a lot to do in terms of equality and that is precisely what all these activities are going to focus on”, explained the mayor, Josele González (PSOE).

The mayor added: “we all add up in the fight against gender violence. I would like to thank all the women’s groups that have wanted to take part in our programme with events, conferences, talks and workshops”.

The Department for Equality and Diversity in Mijas also wishes to acknowledge the 38 women murdered so far this year, “an alarming figure”, according to the councillor for the area, Natalia Martínez (PSOE), “which we must continue to fight to reduce”.

Under the slogan ‘Mujeres, vivas y libres’ (Women, alive and free), the department “wants to send a message of encouragement and freedom to all women. As Nina Simone said, the only freedom is the absence of fear and I believe that this is the line we have to continue working on, empowering all women, so that they feel free and are able to detect if they suffer gender violence to ask for help and be able to change their lives for good”, assured councillor  Martínez.

The presentation of the activities planned for these days, held on Wednesday the 16th, was also attended by representatives of women’s associations who fight, not only on 25N, but throughout the year to make it visible and to remember, according to them, that this is a structural problem and not a private matter. “Our contribution will be to hold an event on the 25th itself at 10 in the morning on San Valentín square, where we are going to pay homage to those women and children who have been murdered”, said Deepa Nandwani, a lawyer from the association Café Feminista Mijas-Fuengirola.

Programme of activities

In the programme of activities, among the new features this year is “an escape room entitled ‘Put yourself in my place’ with which we want to raise awareness about gender violence to almost a thousand students in 6th year Primary School. With the activity, which will take place from the 18th to the 24th of November at Cortijo Don Elías, we seek to raise awareness about gender violence from an early age”, González pointed out.

Along the same lines, on Monday the 21st of November, the Las Lagunas Theatre will host the screening of a series of short films aimed at  the prevention of gender violence. This activity will be promoted and presented by technical professionals in gender equality and will be attended by some 800 students in the 4th year of ESO from Mijas secondary schools.

The Department for Equality is also running the coeducation workshops ‘The formula for good treatment’ for students in 5th year Primary, and ‘Don’t get tangled up’, which have just begun in the 3rd year of ESO, which seek to further the detection of gender violence in social networks.

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