The Municipal Information Centre for Women of Mijas (CMIM) has attended to 113 new users so far this year. As reported by the councillor for Equality and Diversity, Natalia Martínez (PSOE), “more and more women decide to approach our municipal offices to change the direction of their lives. To this number of new women we must add the follow-up that, from this centre, we carry out with other users who continue to require care related to the consequences of being a victim of gender violence. Many of the services this year are also linked to conflictive divorces or non-compliance with parental-child measures, which in most of the cases hide silent violence”.

With regard to data related to gender violence obtained by the Viogen system, in Mijas 347 women have a restraining order in force, of which 100 have been issued in the last three months. “It is a terrifying and alarming reality on which we have to work as a society as a whole.

Despite the alarming numbers, this means that there are more women who dare to report and when they do it is because of the awareness and empowerment provided by many of the great professionals that the Women’s Centre has, whose advice and support is essential for women to detect that they are suffering some type of sexist violence”, explained Martínez.

On the other hand, the CMIM has provided psychological care for 15 children of the victims.

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It is also worth highlighting the management that the Women’s Centre is carrying out so that women at risk can live in a safe environment and with specialized technical assistance, the so-called Andalusian Shelter Network, providing aid to date six women in these centres.

The Municipal Women’s Information Centre offers comprehensive and specialized care to women victims of gender violence, as well as to those women who are in a situation of inequality or vulnerability due to their gender. These attentions and interventions are channeled in a multidisciplinary manner through the technical team made up of an informant, psychologist and legal advisor.

María José Moreno is the informant of the centre: “I provide the first attention to the woman and according to the detected need, her case is referred to the professionals of the Women’s Centre or to other municipal departments, thus maintaining coordination with the different technicians. They are also informed about the existing economic resources and they are helped with their management, giving them all the answers they need”, the informant concluded.

Finally, the municipal centre for women reminds all those women who are in a situation in which they are suffering gender violence that they can contact the Women’s Centre by calling 952 589 001, whatsapp 659 740 402, or the free phone numbers 900 200 999 or 016, where attention is provided in 51 different languages.

In any emergency situation, women are encouraged to call 112 to quickly activate all existing protocols.

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