Pamplona (EFE).- The future 24-hour comprehensive care center for women victims and survivors of sexual violence in Navarra, also known as the Crisis Center, will be located in the Arrosadía neighborhood of Pamplona and will open its doors in November.
It will be “a comprehensive care service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for victims of sexual violence throughout the Foral Community”, who will be attended in person and by telephone, said the vice president and counselor for the Presidency, Equality, Function in his presentation. Public and Interior, Javier Remírez.
Accompanied by the Government delegate in Navarra, Jóse Luis Arasti, and the managing director of the Navarro Institute for Equality (INAI), Eva Istúriz, he described this center as a “milestone” that will offer psychological, legal and social care to all victims and their families.
Currently, the adaptation works of the premises are being carried out, with the forecast that it could be in operation at the end of this year.
Financed from Next Generation funds
In it, they have specified, women over the age of 16 who are victims and survivors of sexual violence will be attended, in person and online, whether the violence has occurred recently or in the past and without the need for a complaint through. The possibility of the team traveling if a woman cannot attend is also contemplated.
This initiative is financed from the Next Generation funds of the European Union and is carried out with the approval of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain. Specifically, through the MRR line (Mechanism for Recovery and Resilience), and its investment amounts to a total amount of 1,306,712 euros.
Its opening is included in article 33 of the Organic Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, known as the “Only yes is yes” law.
These centers represent “a very significant advance in this matter”, he agreed, also noting that the objective is to create a safe space and an environment of trust where these women can go and express themselves, and be accompanied in a complete sense.
82% of the complaints, from women under 30 years of age
The center will be located in the Arrosadia neighborhood of Pamplona, at 4 Xavier Mina street, close to the UPNA and the UNED, in order to bring it closer to the younger population, since it is in this age group where there is a greater concentration of the number of complaints of sexual violence.
In 2021, according to the INAI Annual Report on police complaints of violence against women in Navarra, 82% of complaints of sexual violence had been filed by women under 30 years of age.
The 315m2 space will have a public area where prevention and awareness actions will be carried out, a semi-public area where the offices and other spaces for care will be located, and a private area with two emergency accommodations, among others.
Care and counseling for female victims
It is an interdisciplinary permanent care service that will offer information and guidance to the victims and their entourage, psychological care, both immediate and in crisis, as well as long-term recovery.
Likewise, it will attend to economic, labor, housing and social needs, prior legal advice and free legal assistance in processes derived from violence, follow-up on their rights claims, translation and interpretation services and specialized assistance in the case of women with disabilities.
In addition, activities and actions aimed at the prevention and awareness of sexual violence will be carried out through conferences, training, campaigns, information and dissemination of the Center’s services.
It will have an advice line to meet the requests of professionals from various fields (health, education, police…). As a reference in matters of sexual violence, the Center will be able to carry out studies and investigations and present the results.
What is sexual violence?
In accordance with Organic Law 10/2022, of September 6, on the comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom, sexual violence is considered to be acts of a sexual nature that are not consensual or that condition the free development of sexual life in any public sphere or private.
It covers a broad typology that includes, among others, sexual femicide, forced marriages, sexual or gender-based harassment, violence facilitated by information and communication technologies, or female genital mutilation.
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