Dammam, November 26, 2019, SPA -- Ministry of Labor and Social Development, represented by Social Protection Unit, organized here today its annual awareness program on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on 25 November. The programs will be held for 16 days, representing different awareness-raising campaigns in different sectors related to children and women that aim to raise awareness about all forms of enormous problems of violence against women around the world. These campaigns also aim to shed light on different problems that women face, through encouraging women who face violence and abuse to report to relevant governmental and civil authorities about any form of violence that children under the age of eighteen and women face. A special section in Maternity And Children Hospital in Dammam, with participation of related sectors, is dedicated to represent the different services that the Unit provides. --SPA 15:06 LOCAL TIME 12:06 GMT 0016 www.spa.gov.sa/w1217384