River installed a red bench against gender violence and signed a collaboration agreement with the Public Prosecutor’s Office

River’s football agenda is highlighted on Wednesday, March 8: it’s the day he will face Racing de Córdoba, a club that plays in the Premier National, for the round of 16 of his first in a new edition of the European Cup. ‘Argentina. The match takes place at the Madre de Ciudades stadium in Santiago del Estero. The institutional agenda of River is parallel and has also seen exceptional activity in recent days.

Yesterday in the club offices, President Jorge Brito received the visit of the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the highest authority of the International Association of Prosecutors, Juan Bautista Mahiques, to formalize a joint cooperation agreement between the two institutions. This is a Collaboration agreement. The club defined it as a treaty which “provides for mutual cooperation, reciprocal assistance and training between the two institutions on matters of common interest such as the design and implementation of training activities, courses and workshops, as well as the allocation of spaces within the respective building structures for the development of common themes”.

Also present at the event were 2nd Vice President Ignacio Villarroel, Coordinator of the Advisory Council for the Prevention and Response to Gender Violence, Florencia Esperón, and members of the Women, Gender and Diversity Commission. Martín López Zavaleta, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal, Delictual and Delictual Jurisdiction of the City of Buenos Aires, also participated on behalf of the Attorney General of Buenos Aires.

“This agreement is very important for us, especially because it allows us to offer River employees better training tools on gender and justiceexpressed club president Núñez after shaking hands with Mahiques and posing for the obligatory photos. In turn, the Attorney General of the City of Buenos Aires celebrated the signing of the online collaboration agreement with Brito: “We know that there is still a lot of work to do, but we continue to move forward to provide a increasingly equitable service and inclusive justice service, keep in mind the various structural problems that women face”.

Both agreed on an analysis: to feed on the links to achieve a global approach associated with judicial conflicts of gender. The resolution arises on an alluding date: March 8 marks a new International Women’s Day. No actor is unaware of this event: the main Argentine cities are today the scene of concentrations in which they mainly claim equality, the recognition of diversity and the effective exercise of rights.

In this context, River leaders have dedicated a space in the club to represent the fight against gender violence and feminicide: they installed a red bench around the stadium which has on its forehead a legend of awareness of this problem. The sentence reads: “Violence against women is a violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Report – 0800 333 47225″.

“Emerged as a cultural project that seeks to make visible violence against women around the world, the campaign began in Italy and since 2017 it has been implemented in different cities of our country. Today Today there are already more than 400 red banks in Argentina and, to date, one of them is located in the Mâs Monumental with the objective of not forgetting women who have suffered gender-based violence“, they said from the club.

Indeed, the red bank is an initiative that was born on November 25, 2016 during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In Italy it was given the name “la Panchina Rossa” and began in the municipality of Perugia, capital of the Umbria Region, in the heart of the peninsula. The project has spread across the globe and migrated to Argentina on the initiative of graduate and domestic violence specialist Elisa Mottini. Since 2017, it has begun to be implemented in various cities of the country such as Buenos Aires, Jujuy, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santiago del Estero and Chubut.

The first red bench inaugurated in Argentina took place in the Álvarez Hospital, in Flores, in November 2017. There are already red benches in the historic “Rafael Hernández” National College of the National University of La Plata, on the entrance square of the Libertador building belonging to the Ministry of Defense, at the Vicente López station on the Miter line, among others. The last red bank installed in the country is now in the River stadium.

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