The ENAIRE Foundation raises awareness of gender-based violence through an artistic, participatory activity

Today, 25 November, marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a day to denounce violence against women worldwide and to call for policies in all countries to eradicate it. 

“With this awareness-raising activity against gender-based violence, we will reflect on respect for women’s human rights across the 12 Beijing spheres”, explains Margarita Asuar, Managing Director of the ENAIRE Foundation

The ENAIRE Foundation is joining this social cause through an art-based awareness initiative: a permanent participatory mural at the Naves de Gamazo Art Centre, where anyone can draw their hands on paper and write a message against gender-based violence. 

In this participatory awareness activity, members of the public can learn about the 12 spheres identified in the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and their connection with Human Rights, clearly illustrating how gender-based violence constitutes a violation of Human Rights within one or more of the 12 spheres. 

"At the Naves de Gamazo Art Centre, more than 150 people will take part this week in the awareness activity against gender-based violence, reflecting on respect for women's human rights across the 12 Beijing areas, and drawing their hands with messages of empowerment, empathy, respect and support for women and girls. This activity began in 2024 and more than 100 people have already taken part. We will keep the activity permanently in place because it is essential to act visibly, at a social level, against gender-based violence", explains Margarita Asuar, managing director of Fundación ENAIRE. 

The ENAIRE Foundation is also promoting the democratisation of contemporary art through digital resources such as the Ventana al arte (Window to Art) and the Virtual Reality Incubator, in order to foster the responsible use of technology in the digital age: "New technologies must serve a social purpose and not be used to cause harm. In the 21st century, in addition to the streets, public spaces, the home and private spaces, there is now a new digital space where it is crucial to promote peaceful, constructive behaviour, with international and national regulation that prevents and penalises violence and provides particular protection for women and girls, who find themselves unprotected in a digital space that is often frightening because attacks go unpunished and are frequently carried out from the anonymity of fake accounts", Asuar states. 

[The Government Delegate of Cantabria, Pedro Casares, participating in the mural against gender violence by the ENAIRE Foundation at the Naves de Gamazo Art Center].

UN and the 12 areas of the Beijing Platform for Action 

The Foundation is joining the UN campaign against gender-based violence, which this year focuses on the digital violence suffered by women and girls under the slogan: #NoExcuseForOnlineAbuse “Digital violence is real violence”. 

Likewise, the ENAIRE Foundation also supports the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most comprehensive and forward-looking global plan to achieve equality of rights by and for all women and girls, adopted by 189 governments in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women, which defined the 12 areas of action known as "critical areas of concern", still the benchmark in the fight for equality and against gender-based violence. 

[“Participatory mural against gender violence at the Naves de Gamazo Art Center. Photograph by Miguel De Arriba SRECD”].

About ENAIRE Foundation 

Is a cultural institution of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility that, in addition to managing, preserving and exhibiting the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, engages in a comprehensive annual programme of activities that focus on aeronautical art and culture. Notably, it is one of the institutions that currently provides the most support to photography through its annual prizes - which have become a benchmark for professional photographers - and by hosting exhibits. 

It is the only foundation in Spain that combines the two seemingly disparate themes of art and aeronautical culture, bringing them together by undertaking a programme of activities that promote the study, research, knowledge and dissemination of aeronautical culture, integrating history and modernity to raise awareness of the world of aviation in our country. 

The Naves de Gamazo are the first permanent home of the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, an example of collaboration between government agencies that was made possible thanks to the partnership and joint efforts of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, the Government of Cantabria, through the Office for Culture, Tourism and Sport, and the Port Authority of Santander, which share the operating expenses of the centre in order to ensure the present and future viability of this cultural project. 

ENAIRE Foundation is implementing digital museum resources to boost the democratisation of art and make it accessible from anywhere in the world. These new museum resources are now available on the Foundation's website: 

https://fundacionenaire.es. 

https://fundacionenaire.es/actividad/agoradigital/ . 

About ENAIRE 

ENAIRE is the air navigation service provider in Spain. 

As a company of the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility, it provides air traffic control services during the en route and approach phases of all flights to and from Spain and overflights. In addition, it manages communications, navigation and surveillance services from ENAIRE in the airspace and the entire AENA airport network in Spain and provides aerodrome air traffic control services in 21 airports, including the busiest. 

ENAIRE is the fourth largest European air navigation service provider, and it is a member of international partnerships A6 Alliance, SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, iTEC, CANSO (Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation) and collaborates closely with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). 

ENAIRE has received the highest score in Europe on the aviation safety key performance indicator for five years in a row. It has also been awarded the EFQM 600 Seal for its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services.