The Councilor for Equality of the City of Lorca, Juan Francisco Martínez, and the General Director of Women and Equality of Opportunities of the CARM, Alicia Barquero, visited this morning a "Street Marketing" action organized by the Regional Government and found framed within the programming carried out by the Lorca Consistory to commemorate the International Day against Gender Violence.
Juan Francisco Martínez pointed out that "this initiative, which has taken place in the central street Corredera, is part of the awareness campaign against gender violence launched by the CARM, and this year aims to influence the environment of the victim. With messages like "Observe, listen and tell", it is about making people aware of how to act and not turning their backs on the situation of violence that is oppressing a woman. "
Councilman Equality added that "this action aims to draw the attention of citizens through a purple door, simulating the house, where you hear screams, insults, humiliation, ... with the aim of raising awareness and Lorca make them see that inside a house they can be carrying out these situations, so they have to be brave and in a situation like this they must denounce, in addition, they have also distributed more than 700 flayers about the campaign "Do not be emoticon" .
Martinez recalled that "to commemorate the 25N, International Day against Gender Violence, the City of Lorca is developing a comprehensive and comprehensive program with the aim of adding voices to launch a unanimous message against gender violence and raise awareness in equality, above all, to the youngest, in this sense, it should be remembered that the victims of gender violence have a free telephone 016, the call is not reflected in the bill, or 112 ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca