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GUIDE ON PAGES 38 - 42 25 - 31 July 2019
COSTA DE ALMERÍA YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION CREDIT: Adra Council
ISSUE NO. 1777
EXAMPLE: The Adra mayor said the local community could learn a lot from the young people’s voluntary action.
Youngsters take up clean coast cause SOME 50 young people in Adra decided to do their bit to care for the local coastline. The group set about collecting rubbish in the area surrounding the town port breakwater following a call for action on social media. Between them they filled around 20 rubbish bags. Adra mayor Manuel Cortes and members of his governing team went along to meet the youngsters.
Cortes thanked the group for their “worthy of respect” initiative and for their “voluntary participation” in the care and maintenance of the town. He described their action as “an example” for the local community “from which w e h a v e to lea rn a g re a t deal,” remarking that keeping the municipality rubbish-free “is a matter for everyone.” Adra Council collaborated w ith th e g ro u p o n the
clean-up efforts, providing materials like gloves, rubbish bags and the supervision of Civil Protection and the Local Police.
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Increase in genderbased violence cases THE number of gender-based violence cases in Almeria is up on last year. The latest figures from the Government Subdelegation for the province show there are currently 1,964 active cases in Almeria registered in the VioGen system, 24 more than at the end of 2018. VioGen was set up by the Interior Ministry in 2007 to bring together the public institutions covering gender-based violence for more effective risk assessment and prevention and victim protection, and for more rapid action. The head of the Government Sub-delegation’s violence against women unit, Raquel Contreras, described VioGen as “a valuable tool when it comes to evaluating the situation and the needs of women who are victims of mistreatment.” Since 2003, 34 women in Almeria have been killed by their partners or former partners, and two children have died in gender violence-related cases since 2013; this was the first year the children of women who are gender violence victims were included in the victim figures. Since then five children in the province have been orphaned as a result of gender-based aggression.
At this time there are 95 suspected abusers with restraining orders against them in Almeria who have to wear electronic tagging devices, the Sub-delegation statistics reveal. Of these, 27 were fitted between January and May, 12.5 per cent more than in the same period of last year. In the first five months of the year, 140 women in the province were registered in the telephone assistance and protection service for gender violence victims. This allows users to contact a qualified person by mobile at any time and provides a localisation service as a means of protection. In February Arboleas, Cantoria, Gador, Los Gallardos, Tabernas, Tiiola and Zurgena became the latest provincial municipalities to become part of the VioGen system, putting the total number at 25. They joined Adra, Albox, Alhama de Almeria, Almeria City, Berja, Carboneras, Cuevas del Almanzora, Dalias, El Ejido, Garrucha, Huercal de Almería, HuercalOvera, La Mojonera, Mojacar, Olula del Rio, Pulpi, Vera and Vicar. Local councils receive funding for projects and programmes to fight gender-based violence, including awareness-raising campaigns and workshops.