SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de La Gomera will commemorate International Women’s Day, which is celebrated this Tuesday, March 8, with the development of outreach and awareness activities, under the slogan ‘Diverse, free, our women’.
The Island Councilor for Social Policy, Beatriz Santos, explained that the Island Corporation has focused its efforts on preparing a symbolic program for this date, “based on publicizing and raising awareness among citizens regarding gender equality and sexual violence.”
Thus, on Tuesday 8, starting at 9:30 a.m., the Plenary Hall of the Cabildo de La Gomera will host the presentation ‘Sexual violence against women and girls’, by Esther Torrado, research professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of La Laguna, and a specialist in Women’s Studies, Gender, Citizenship and Cultures. Attendance is free, suitable for all audiences.
At 12 noon, the portico of the Cabildo Headquarters will be the scene of the reading of the institutional declaration for March 8, International Women’s Day, to later open a Punto Violeta, an information space on gender equality and violence, which will pay attention to the public until 2:00 p.m.
The Plenary Session of the Cabildo approved, last Friday, its adherence to the Institutional Declaration for International Women’s Day issued by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces to recognize the progress made, remember the challenges still pending and warn about the dangers that lurk achievements in terms of effective equality between men and women.
This year marks fifteen years since the Congress of Deputies approved a law that aspired to make effective the right to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, aimed at combating all the still existing manifestations of discrimination, direct or indirect, by reason of sex and to promote real equality, with the removal of obstacles and social stereotypes that prevent it from being achieved.
Among other acknowledgments established in the declaration, it appeals to the pandemic situation in terms of the negative impact it is having on women’s rights, thus warning of the consequences that this setback will have for future generations.
