Ecuadorian Project Will Strengthen Spain Against Gender Violence

ElUniverso.com reports that the Embassy of Ecuador in Spain and the Repsol Foundations have decided to collaborate on a program for strengthening families, especially immigrant families in Spain, to deal with gender violence and promote access to protection and judicial systems. The program was launched Monday June 13 in Madrid. The program is planning to serve about a thousand immigrants living in the Madrid region. The Secretary of State for Equality stated that since 2003 the victims of gender violence in Spain amounted to 119 foreigners and 21 Ecuadorians. In 2010, partners or former partners murdered five Ecuadorian women. The Ecuadorian Ambassador to Spain, Galo Chiriboga says the projects objective is to change the old patterns of violent crimes against women, while fighting against male addictions like alcohol, violence, discrimination and unequal relations between men and women.Read Article