SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE Nov. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Monday, the Tenerife Cabildo observed the ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ by reading a manifesto. The event included contributions from the president, Rosa Dávila, the Minister of Social Action, Águeda Fumero, and the island directors of Social Action and Equality, Yolanda Baumgartner and Patricia De León.
Prior to this, a conference was conducted at the MUNA, featuring psychologist Sonia Vaccaro, who delivered a presentation on vicarious violence, titled ‘Vicarious Violence: Hitting where it hurts most.’
President Rosa Dávila stated that this event reinforces the institution’s “rejection” of the violence experienced by women and children in Tenerife, emphasising the Cabildo’s commitment to “continue striving for its eradication.”
Dávila also acknowledged “the crucial social role that women victims and survivors play in enhancing public services, as their voices are key to improving the responses” provided by varied institutions.
The Minister of Social Action, Águeda Fumero, commended the efforts of the workers of the Organic Unit of Gender Violence at the Cabildo, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary this year. She encouraged them to “keep promoting coordinated responses so that prevention, education, training, social, health, legal and police protection, act as tools that assist us in delivering effective solutions.”
Furthermore, Fumero highlighted the need to assert that the battle against gender violence is a “social reality” we coexist with and that collective action is required. She referenced the adolescent demographic, “which is particularly susceptible to the new forms of violence emerging alongside new technologies,” as well as women with disabilities, older women, foreign women, and children and youths, “who are often silent victims of the abuse directed towards their mothers.”
