The Association of Women Judges of Spain (AMJE), which has implemented its project on gender perspective "Educating in Equal Justice" in Lanzarote during the 2016/2017 academic year, will present the results of this initiative on the island next June 12 in Brussels. The European Union has invited AMJE to the International Conference on "Safety at Home and at Work", which is promoted by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and where a novel report on Violence at Home and in the Workplace will be presented.
"AMJE will have the opportunity to explain to the world the good results obtained in the implementation in Lanzarote of our pioneering educational idea to fight against gender violence from Justice, which is reversible in training, since its educational impact not only extends to its recipients but also to the trainers of all judicial fields", they pointed out from the association.
Last year, AMJE promoted the first educational tool with a gender perspective from Justice. This is "an educational project in equality that turns the courtrooms of Spanish courts into schools of equal justice and brings our young people closer to a more real and less televised justice", as they explained. This initiative has had more than 1000 young people attached and a volunteer team composed of 40 people from all levels of justice (lawyers, forensics, judiciary, prosecution, security forces, social graduates, etc.).
With three hallmarks: equality, justice and education
It is a tool for moral education from Justice, which promotes transformative learning from socio-constructivism. It is a project that was born with a gender perspective, aimed at young people between 9 and 18 years old, with three hallmarks: equality, justice and education, and in which education centers and Justice operators collaborate altruistically.
"Educating in Equal Justice" is a program for the dissemination and knowledge of what equal justice is among students to help them recognize gender discrimination and violence, as well as gender stereotypes and prejudices. In addition, it aims to bring students closer to the judicial world, through guided tours of judicial facilities and attendance at public trials, with a gender perspective, as an enriching experience that will give them more accurate information about the functioning of the courts and the concept of justice.
Apart from that, it is a project that promotes creativity and teamwork of adolescents through the preparation and staging of a trial, with a gender perspective, in a real courtroom.
"Our educational project is already having a positive social impact on the island of volcanoes and such has been its success that we will soon extend it to the rest of the Spanish geography, and beyond our borders", they pointed out from AMJE.
