Government launches new campaign ‘Portugal Against Violence’
O The government launched the campaign ‘Portugal Contra A Violência’ (# PortugalContraAViolência) with the aim of raising awareness of violence against women, on the day it commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
In this sense, a Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality, Rosa Monteiro and the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality today launched the # PortugalContraAViolência campaign, with the collaboration of AMCV (Association of Women Against Violence), the Association Create Project, Associação Ser Mulher, APAV (Portuguese Association for Victim Support), Associação Plano I, Portuguese Association of Women Lawyers, Coolabora, Portuguese Red Cross, Democratic Movement of Women, XXI Century Women, UMAR (Union of Alternative Women) and the Answer and Break the Silence Association.
The campaign was launched with the video that we showed above in the gallery.
On the day that commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the PSP recalled that since 2000 it has reported 215,102 occurrences of this kind and that this year, as of October 31, it registered 11,449 reports of this type of crime (14,403 in 2020)
Despite the tendency to reduce these complaints registered by the PSP in recent years, the police join the increase in the number of detainees, having registered 732 arrests this year this year (557 in 2019 and 723 in 2020).
In addition to the importance of this problem at the national level, a UN today highlighted that one in three women around the world experience situations of physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, which makes prevention and alert for this type of problem still most important.
It is the International Day to End Violence against Women.
1 in 3 🧕🦰 around the experience of physical or sexual violence by:
One husband
A boyfriend
an intimate partner
A lover
A father
a relative
a colleague
A boss
A strangerWe must #ENDviolence!https://t.co/rKj6fQ8Obk pic.twitter.com/SajtseyJKZ
– World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) November 25, 2021
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