Punts lila — Purple Points — Time Use Initative

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Equality

Punts lila — Purple Points

Service to raise awareness about, prevent, and address gender-based and LGBTQI-phobic violence at public events.

Barcelona City Council

Spain

Local policy

POLICY OBJECTIVE

Conduct a survey about leisure from the standpoint of feminism and safety and report data for improvement and correction.
Raise awareness about gender-based violence (GBV) during leisure activities in public spaces and provide digital and paper informational material in Catalan, Spanish, and English and merchandise.
Detect, intervene, and activate the established GBV protocol, coordinate with the fixed point (stand), and activate 112 emergency response services, coordinating each situation.

CONTEXT

The aim was to raise awareness and prevent GBV in public spaces, particularly during nighttime events, to make people feel safer, and to provide assistance to individuals experiencing harassment, GBV, or sexual aggression.

POLICY DESCRIPTION

The service typically consists of a fixed point where people can get help and information, as well as a two-person mobile unit to support prevention among and offer assistance to the (predominantly young) attendees of festivities in public spaces.

Purple Points will ideally become points of reference for issues related to GBV and LGBTQ-phobic violence at events in public spaces. Multiple professionals will always be on hand to provide information, advice, assistance and referrals, to record data, and to intervene as needed.

KEY ASPECTS

Staff receive essential training in gender equality, GBV, sexual violence, and LGBTQ rights.
Popular initiative born of proposals from feminist organizations and deployed as a city service in 2017.
Unique initiative operating in coordination with medical and security services and providing information, advice and assistance in cases of harassment and sexual assault at festivities.

RESULTS

In 2022, Purple Points attended to 9,534 cases at the city level and 10,682 at the district level.

Policy's Website

Montserrat

Juanpere Ferré

Department for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence. Services for Feminism and LGBTQ+

mjuanpere@bcn.cat

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