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The Minister of Health, Catalina Lorenzo, with Joaquín Bascuñana, government delegate in the Region of Murcia;

Josefina Garcia, rector of the Catholic University;

and Jose Maria Caballero, vice dean of the Degree in Criminology;

have inaugurated the symposium

Bascuñana "gender violence forty orphans left last year"

"We've come a long way in raising awareness throughout society of the problem of domestic violence," the government delegate in the Region of Murcia;

Joaquín Bascuñana, during the inauguration of 'First National Congress of care for victims of domestic violence' that has taken place this afternoon UCAM and has been organized by the Degree in Criminology.

Bascuñana also noted that "last year, forty children orphaned by assaulting families, mothers. This should make us reflect on the harsh consequences of gender violence".

The Minister of Health, Catalina Lorenzo, who also participated in the opening, stressed that there are still many people who do not report incidents of domestic violence and said that we must "show the way these women. The UCAM is an ideal setting to address this issue. "

For its part, the rector of the Catholic University of Murcia, Josefina Garcia Lozano, said "it is an issue that needs to be investigated, to be shared with all institutions. We must continue

sensitizing the society to which it reacts to these situations and under no circumstances be accepted. "

Antonio Andrés Pueyo, professor of psychology at the University of Barcelona;

who delivered the inaugural lecture 'Challenges and professional contributions of the risk assessment of violence against women', highlighted in the previous encounter with the media that "in general, murder cases related to domestic violence are down ".

Pueyo said "have emerged cases of psychological phenomena milder sexual violence, which were once very tolerated and now they are not, and therefore strongly emerge".

"If the assailant is your partner, ex-partner or father of your children, decisions are very delicate because life does not end on the day of the complaint, or the day after. It's never easy," he added Pueyo.

Source: UCAM