Grupo Codere is embracing change, and ane of its foremost goals is to improve its incorporated image. The global gaming troupe hopes to accomplish this, inwards part, through and through a unexampled collective social responsibility hunting expedition targeting grammatical gender violence.

Codere, which is now controlled by shareholders, has embraced “Red Bench,” an initiative designed to financial backing charities that combat grammatical gender violence. Working under a slogan of “violence is never love,” the computer program will increase internal and international awareness. It will also kick upstairs initiatives to lose weight grammatical gender violence and surrogate a civilisation of gender equality.

According to Codere’s announcement, bouquets of roses testament live placed on for each one bench. a verse form of living and consciousness testament live scan to encourage victims to act. In addition, the fellowship testament make believe sure the contacts of local economic aid institutions to forbid grammatical gender revilement are readily available.

Codere’s computer programme set in motion was designed to coincide with Nov 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Equality for All Genders

The company’s Corporate Director of Human Resources, Álvaro de Ansorena, explains inward a statement, “At Codere, we are firmly committed to defending a culture of diversity and equality among our employees. Not surprisingly, our accompany is made upwards of a very diverse staff, made upward of people of more than 43 different nationalities. This diversity is component part of the company’s values.”

The new programs, component of Codere’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework, will live found in all of the countries where it is active. This currently encompasses its place country of Spain, as good as Argentina, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay.

Going forward, a cherry-red bench will be installed inwards companionship rooms and offices. This is designed to wait on as a symbolization and reminder of the initiative and to make a infinite where individuals tin story sexist violence. It testament also swear out as a reminder to further a civilisation of par and abide by for all genders.

40 per cent of our 11,000 employees are women, so supporting actions of equality, diversity and prize is indispensable for the organization,” de Ansorena stated.

Life Imitates Art

The initiative, which began inwards 2017, is reportedly based on artwork created past Tina Magenta, an Italian activist. That patch of art, a cerise bench, was designed to memorialise the for the first time public objection against femicide, defined as the putting to death of a adult female or girl, inwards particular by a adult male and on business relationship of her gender.

The initiative also reportedly gets its brainchild from the blood-red shoe exhibit from Mexican creative person Elina Chauvet. This latter presentation was created to memorialize the victims of domestic abuse.

Adds Codere CSR head up Jorge Barreras, “The company’s unexampled incorporated social responsibleness framework is a hone weapons platform to transmission channel and work this social problem finisher to collaborators and clients, as a troupe committed to the environments in which it develops their activity, and prise for grammatical gender equivalence and diversity.”

According to United Nations gird “UN Women,” an estimated 736 meg women worldwide have been victims of insinuate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both. This figure covers all women 15 years and older, but does not include sexual harassment. Women who hold been subject to force feature higher rates of depression, anxiousness disorders, and unplanned pregnancies.

The figures feature increased during COVID-19 lockdowns. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, calls to helplines increased fivefold inwards sure countries. The chemical group reports that women are now more vulnerable to house servant violence around the globe due to restrictions on movement, economical insecurity, and societal isolation.

Some 52 countries had incorporated prevention and responses to violence against girls and women into COVID-19 response plans past September 2020. Additionally, 121 countries had also adoptive measures to beef up services to women who hold been victims of violence during the world(a) crisis.