Guantanammo.- With the aim of contributing to Cuba’s efforts to combat gender violence or violence against women, the new project “No More” for prevention and response to this type of discrimination was presented in Guantanamo.
The campaign had its first meeting in the El Salvador Municipality and then in the Capital City, both territories chosen along with others in Las Tunas, Granma and Havana, provinces that in recent years have registered more cases of mistreatment, including domestic violence, or hurtful insults that affect the physical integrity of women.
Journalist Liliana Gómez Damos, who leads the “No More” project in the eastern part of the country, referred to the need to break stereotypes and imaginings that reproduce gender violence, hence the importance of developing a comprehensive prevention strategy within the household in which most cases occur.
She urged the vision and support of the Cuban Women Federation (FMC) and local governments as the main actors in the development of the project, in addition to the prosecutor’s office, the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), Popular Communicators, journalists, social workers and support network groups against this scourge.
Liliana Gómez Damos, who also holds a master’s in Gender Studies, said that the second stage of the “No More” project includes visits to the territories and that a meeting is scheduled for Guantánamo on March 14 and 15, where members of the management group of the Italian association Cospe, experts from the National Program for the Advancement of Women and the Martin Luther King Center will exchange and train collaborators and professionals from a select group in the country to putting gender equality as a strategic priority in Cuba.
