The calls received for gender violence, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, increased andl 11.45% Come in 2018 and 2020, going from 1,738 to 1,937. In the entire Canary Islands, and according to the data provided by the Attention Service for women victims of gender violence, collected through the immediate attention telephone service, only in 2020, the year that coincides with the confinement measures due to the pandemic of the COVID, calls grew on 5.28% Over the previous year. Calls that revealed that in the 74% Of the cases, the aggressors of these women were their partners or ex-partners.
Faced with figures like these that are of great concern, the City Council of the capital presented an awareness campaign on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Gender Violence, which will be celebrated next Thursday, November 25. And he did it under the motto You too, me too, we can stop this situation, in a ceremony at the Nuestra Señora de Africa Market, in which the mayor of the capital, José Manuel Bermúdez, explained the importance of “making visible and identifying everyday machismo to denounce this type of conduct that translates into violent acts against women”.
For her part, the Councilor for Equality, Purificación Dávila, pointed out that the campaign makes “a call to the chicharrera society so that we all get involved in the elimination of violence against women, so that we look at those behaviors that go unnoticed , and that derive, in many occasions, in mistreatment ”.
For this, the Chicharrero Town Hall has scheduled several talks, specifically on November 23 and 24, for third and fourth ESO students, and for high school students, at the Guimerá Theater. In addition, on the 25th there will be two performances, one in the building of the Town Hall itself, in Ofra, and another in the surroundings of the Parque de la Granja.
A campaign that also has a video clip, whose song, Also You, is performed by the Canarian singer Mel Ömana. An announcement that will be broadcast through social networks, on television, on the radio and on billboards in all districts of Santa Cruz.
