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The Spring Festival will have six violent points, to which will be added another to be installed during the WARM Festival, in order to inform, raise awareness and prevent sexist attitudes and behavior against women.

There are also spaces for security and accompaniment for victims of sexist or sexual violence that the City of Murcia enables during the Spring Festival.

These violet points will have volunteer staff registered in the municipal offices of volunteers of the three Municipal Social Services Centers, who request to participate in the project and receive the necessary training and information that is given from the Women Section of the Department of Social Rights and Development Cooperation.

In this way young people from each of the districts of the municipality will be able to participate as volunteers, "which will have a positive impact for equality and social transformation, since it supposes beyond creating a space for youth participation, giving them the option to take an active position in the rejection and denunciation of macho attitudes and behaviors and therefore move towards a structural change in the conception and perception of micro-machismo ", explained Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz.

For the development of this campaign we also count on the collaboration of Civil Protection, Red Cross and Local Police services and with three professionals in each point specialized in equality and gender violence prevention.

The hiring of this personnel is financed with the subsidy of the State Pact against Gender Violence 2019.

For these festivities the installation of 5 violet points has been estimated: in the Pre-Bando festival, in the Fofó Park, on April 22 from 6 to 10 pm;

during the Bando de la Huerta, in the Plaza de la Universidad from 13 a.m. to 21 p.m. and in the FICA Fairgrounds in the Concert of the Repanocha from 12:30 a.m. to 10.30 p.m.

during the Burial of the Sardine in the Plaza de la Universidad from 13 to 21 hours and in the Garden of Fame from 13 to 21 hours.

In addition, during the WARM Festival, which is held on May 4 and 5, another one will be set up at the FICA fairgrounds from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm.

Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, explained that "with the campaign 'Tolerance or sexist violence, only if it is yes', the City of Murcia once again manifests its commitment to equality between men and women and against of the sexist violence, carrying out a forceful and continuous action of sensitization and information to all the citizenship and of prevention and protection against sexist aggressions, with the installation of Violet Points during the Spring Festival ".

The Second Plan for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men 2018-2019 includes the development of "awareness actions on micro-machismo, street harassment and leisure free of sexist aggressions", something absolutely necessary to guarantee higher levels of security and equality for women. women of the municipality and in all the spaces and moments of the community and social life of the city of Murcia ", explained Ruiz.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia