Nayarit Legislature Strengthens Attention to Victims of Violence
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January 26, 2022
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"For this year the Congress through the Special Commission for Victims of Feminicides achieved a 36 percent budget increase for the State Commission for Integral Attention to Victims of the State of Nayarit", informed Congresswoman Laura Paola Monts Ruiz.

The president of the Special Commission for Victims of Feminicides, commented that they have received 15 complaints from abused women from all over the state, but mainly from Tepic, who state that they have suffered harassment, aggressions, injuries and rapes.

Monts Ruíz said that the complaints about violence received in Congress are channeled to the State Commission of Integral Attention to Victims of the State of Nayarit, where they are given legal and psychological counseling immediately and with dignified treatment.

The president of the Special Commission on Feminicides, legislator Laura Paola Monts Ruíz, explained that providing dignified attention to people who denounce violence is a priority, but also as a Commission they will work on preventing aggressiveness from schools, so that children identify violent manifestations in their environment.

"We have a general overview of the situation of violence that exists in Nayarit, and this year the project is to give special attention through education in schools, implement a program for non-violence and peace, so that from elementary school children know how to identify what violence is, because they are not aware of what they live and how to resolve conflicts in the right way," said the local legislator.

In conclusion, Congresswoman Monts Ruiz, made a call to those who suffer violence and wish to file a complaint, she said that they can go to the State Congress directly to her office or leave their data on the social network Facebook at Laura Monts.

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