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Barnabas: “Violence against women requires an unambiguous response, sustained in resources and public policies”

24/11/2025
  • The Palau del Temple, headquarters of the Delegation, has hosted the institutional act on the occasion of the 25-N, under the motto None Empty Chair
  • The Comunitat Valenciana hosts about 17% of the active cases in VioGén with 17,675
  • The Comunitat Valenciana is the second autonomy with more VioGén conventions signed in 2025 and Valencia, is the first province

“Violence against women requires an unambiguous response, sustained in resources and in public policies,” said the delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, for whom “the denial speeches generate deprotection, discredit the victims and erode the consensuses that support the iguadad.”

Today the institutional event was held in the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community No Empty Chair on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to be commemorated tomorrow. With this act, we remember the 38 women and 3 children who have been killed in Spain so far this year, victims of male violence.

This day must also serve “to point out those who emerge from the consensus of the Pact of State that has been renewed thanks to the agreement, the dialogue and the policy in capital letters with which to attend to the new violence, and the new ways to combat it”. However, the State Pact “is not complete because there are political parties that have first refused to recognize gender violence as such, with a negationism that kills and with parties that today are conditioning autonomous governments such as the Valencian Community”.

At the event held in the cloister of the Palau del Temple, chairs have been placed with the names of each of the victims of gender violence in Spain during 2025. This tribute ended with the reading of the murdered women and then a minute of silence was observed presided over by the government delegate, Pilar Bernabé.

Gender violence 2025

In 2025, 38 women and 3 children were killed, victims of male violence. Of them, 2 women and a child in the Valencian Community.

With regard to complaints and protection orders, In the second quarter of 2025, 6,982 complaints were filed in the C. Valenciana (13.8% of the 50,737 in the whole of Spain) and 1,250 protection orders were requested (11.8% of the 10,588 of those initiated in national eremu). In the province of Alicante, 2,731 complaints were filed (39.1% of the total of the C. Valenciana) and 467 protection orders (37.4%); in Castellón, 772 complaints (11.1%) and 176 protection orders (14.1%) and in Valencia, 3,479 complaints (49.8%) and 607 orders (48.6%).

The number of inmates serving prison sentences for crimes of gender violence, as of September 30, 2025, was 8,162 throughout Spain, 1,245 of them in the C. Valencian (15.3%). The province of Alicante has 389 inmates (31.2% of the total of the C. Valenciana); Castellón, 214 inmates (17.2%) and Valencia, 642 inmates (51.6%).

According to data provided by the Ministry of the Interior, the total number of active cases in the VioGén system at the national level as of October 31, 2025 was 104,770 cases, of which 17,675 were in the C. Valencian (16.9%). By province, Alicante has 6,946 active cases (39.3% of the total of the C. Valenciana); Castellón, 2,720 active cases (15.4%) and Valencia, 8,009 active cases (45.3%).

As of October 31, of the 820 Spanish municipalities that effectively access the VioGén coordination system to care for and protect victims of gender violence, 130 belong to the C. Valencia, the 2nd regional CCAA with 15.9% of the signed agreements, and Valencia is the province with the most agreements (7.6%).

As of September 30, 2025, 3,850 users were active in the ATENPRO Service in the C. Valenciana (19.1% of the 20,120 users in Spain). By provinces: in the province of Alicante: 1,413 (36.7% of the total of the C. Valenciana), in de Castellón: 437 (11.4%) and in Valencia: 2,000 (51.9%).

With regard to the system of telematic follow-up of the prohibitions of approach imposed in the field of gender violence and sexual violence (COMETA devices), a total of 486 pairs of telematic devices to follow the prohibitions of approach were active in the C. Valenciana on September 30, 2025, 11% of the national total (4,511 active devices), with the following distribution: province of Alicante: 124 terminals (26% of the total of the C. Valenciana); province of Castellón: 141 terminals (29%) and province of Valencia: 221 terminals (45%).

With regard to service 016, the total number of consultations attended in this service during the month of September 2025 was 11,776 in Spain, of which 1,274 consultations (10.8%) were carried out from the C. Valencian. By province, the province of Alicante received 463 consultations (36.3% of the total of the C. Valenciana); Castellón, 145 consultations (11.4%) and Valencia, 666 consultations (52.3%).