The Orihuela City Council’s Department of Citizen Security has started a campaign called “Digital Gender Violence in Teenagers: 10 Ways to Detect It.” This is a preventative effort aimed at young people in the city and was created by the Local Police and its Gender Violence Unit (UVIGEN). The purpose is to teach teens how to spot and avoid controlling, abusive, or violent behaviours that happen on mobile phones, social media, and other digital spaces.
Mónica Pastor, the Councillor for Citizen Security, and officers from the Local Police’s specialised section talked about the campaign at a news conference. Pastor stressed that this campaign is a response to “a reality that concerns and worries us” and also warned that most young people’s first love interactions now happen online, where bad behaviour can become commonplace.
The councilwoman says that the major goal is to provide teens the tools and information they need to see digital violence early and stop it, which shows how educational and preventive the campaign is.
The events will happen in January and February at Orihuela and Orihuela Costa secondary schools. The campaign will start at the CIPFP El Palmeral and then go on to the IES Gabriel Miró. In the next several months, it will also go to the primary schools in the municipality.
José Manuel Rech, the chief inspector of the Minors and Gender Violence Unit, stressed how important it is to make minors aware of the dangers of using the internet and cyberspace. He said that in order to avoid risky situations that they may not even be aware of, they need to be aware of their daily lives.
Inma Sánchez, the head of UVIGEN, said that schools are seeing more problems like cyberbullying, sexting, and ghosting, which are growing more popular among teens. She said that the campaign talks about more than just physical violence; it also talks about psychological, emotional, economic, and digital violence so that young people may learn to recognise all of its forms.
The Local Police have also started the ‘Break Your Silence’ project on Spotify as part of this effort. This project will publish content aimed at young people on a regular basis, including testimonies and messages meant to raise awareness, inform and encourage people to report any violence they see.
The campaign’s main purpose is to give teens more power and encourage healthy relationships based on respect, equality, and tolerance. The message is clear: love does not control or watch over.
Author: Derek Appleton
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