The City Council commemorates the ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’.

The official ceremony will take place next Monday with a tribute to the murdered women and the award ceremony of the XXVI Poster Contest ‘November 25th’.

The City Council of Estepona reports on the program of events commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is celebrated every November 25. That same day will take place the official ceremony, which will take place at 12.30 pm in the Plaza Antonia Guerrero. Tribute will be paid to the victims of gender violence. Local authorities call the Estepona society to show their rejection of violence and solidarity with the victims, keeping a minute of silence after the official words.

This will be followed by the reading of the commemorative manifesto. As every year, the International Day to End Violence against Women marks the beginning of the UNiTE Campaign, 16 days of activism (25 Nov-10 Dec) that conclude coinciding with the International Day of Human Rights.

This year, the 2024 theme is ‘Every 10 minutes a woman is murdered. #ThereIsNoExcuse. UNiTE to end violence against women’ and aims to mobilize all members of society in the face of an alarming escalation of violence against women, as well as to revitalize commitments and demand accountability and concrete action from decision-makers.

Finally, will proceed to the awards ceremony of the XXVI Poster Contest ‘November 25’, a contest on violence against women in all its manifestations, which have involved a total of 154 students (122 girls and 32 boys) of secondary education of the five IES of the town. In this edition 150 works have been presented. The jury was formed by the councilor attached to the delegation of Women, Julia Simon, the teacher of Drawing and Painting of the municipal delegation of Culture, Rocio Garin, Maria del Mar Perez Tuda and Julian Salas Prado, deputy inspectors of Citizen Participation and UFAM, respectively, of the National Police; and Florencio Benítez López, representing the Integral System of Gender Violence Cases (Viogén), a program that facilitates Local Police officers to act quickly when this type of crime is detected.

The winners of the XXVI ‘Certamen de carteles 25 de noviembre’ are the following:

1st prize: Iker Ramos Serrano, 4th B of IES Puerta del Mar.

2nd prize: Claudia Bellido Morales, 4th B of IES Mediterráneo.

3rd prize: Julia Pereira Martín and Mustafá Islam Charkaoui El Meghary. 1st E of IES Mediterráneo.

Special mention: Andrea López Moral, 4th B of IES Puerta del Mar.

On the other hand, the City Council has started this month in the institutes of the town the eleventh edition of the Project ‘Observa’, aimed at students in 1st ESO, with the aim of training young people in equality and prevent gender violence.

The 25N anniversary is completed with the photographic exhibition ‘Photography as a means of expression and overcoming. Gender Violence: prevention and awareness’, with snapshots taken by students of the conceptual photography workshop taught by Gladys Farias, which will remain in the CEIP Ramón García.