The European University of the Atlantic (UNEATLANTICO) joins, one more year, the movement of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which is celebrated to raise awareness today November 25th.
This date is marked in the calendar through a resolution that took place in 1999 by the United Nations (UN). According to the UN, it is estimated that one in three women have been victims of various types of violence at least once in their lives.
The UNiTE campaign, UNiTE, continues the multi-year initiative to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls worldwide. The crisis of gender-based violence is urgent, and people are encouraged to join in raising awareness and prevention to build a future free for all women and girls alike.
It should be emphasised that violence can take many forms, with physical, economic and psychological consequences in both the short and long term, so that the magnitude of its impact on the lives of affected individuals, families and society as a whole is immense. The United Nations General Assembly defines part of violence against women as ‘any act of violence that results in physical, sexual, psychological or psychological harm or suffering to women’.
To make the whole university community reflect, several students from UNEATLANTICO have debated about gender violence in El Diario Montañés: students and teachers from UNEATLANTICO attended the XV National Conference on Gender Violence organised by the Official College of Psychology of Cantabria; and at the same time a video has been created compiling testimonies of several people to raise awareness about the need to create equal spaces free of violence against women, whether psychological, physical, verbal or emotional.
In UNEATLANTICO we affirm that #NOHAYEXCUSA for violence against women.