| News from the Cehegín City Council 10/11/2020 19: 34: 02 | The Councilor for Women and Equality, Mónica Sánchez, has held, in recent days, a meeting by videoconference with the Director of Women and Gender Diversity, María José García.This meeting served to talk about gender violence and about the actions to be carried out in our town on November 25, where the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated.The actions that have been jointly promoted by our municipality and the Autonomous Community over the last year were also shared at the meeting, especially during the state of alarm, especially the work carried out to care and follow up on female victims of gender violence.As well as to mark the next steps to take together with the aim of achieving an agile and effective response to the needs and demands of women who are victims of gender violence.Mónica Sánchez also recalled the need to involve the educational community as a channel for transmitting the values ??of equality between women and men, in order to be educated from youth in this reality.In the same way, the mayor recalled that the City Council launched a mobile application to prevent cases of harassment or gender violence.The “Avisa Cehegín” application was made available to women on their mobile devices.
You can download this application for free from PLAY STORE and APP STORE.
And it is active for Android devices and now also on IPhone.
The app allows you to activate an alarm system, in which you also have to register in the application itself to activate it, connected to the Local Police Center in situations of insecurity, harassment, persecution or violence.Finally, he recalled that the City Council has a meeting point for specialized and individualized Psychological Attention for women victims of gender violence (PAE), and that a new totally free telephone line for the Network of Specialized Attention Centers is already operational.
for Women Victims of Gender Violence.
The new number is 900 710 061.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín