- The evolution of the Viogén System and a new impulse to the training and specialization of the professionals of the State Security Forces and Corps, some of the projects of the Ministry of the Interior to continue fighting against male violence
Since 2003, the year in which data on gender violence began to be recorded, and until 2022 the figures of male murder in Spain have fallen by 29.57 percent, according to a statistical study prepared by those responsible for the Area of Gender Violence, Studies and Training of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Comprehensive Monitoring System in Cases of Gender Violence (VioGen System) systematically analyzes homicide data to better understand their risk factors, patterns and triggers, in order to design strategies to improve the fight against this criminal phenomenon.
This analysis shows that in 2003 the statistics collected a total of 71 machista homicides, while in 2022 50 were recorded, which represents a decrease of 29.57 percent. So far in 2023, the number of women murdered has risen to 52.
Picture of the evolution of victims since 2003
To analyze this evolution, the experts of the Viogén System have divided the same 20-year time period into two cycles of ten. In the first, 2003-2012, 659 male homicides were recorded, while in the second, 2013-2022, 526 were recorded, which translates into a percentage decrease of 20.18 percent, a ratio that confirms a sustained downward trend during these two decades.
Studies of this type, as well as other research carried out together with different academic institutions, have allowed the Viogén System to improve the protection of victims of gender violence through new protocols adapted more precisely to each specific case, especially those that affect women in situations of deprotection or at high risk of being killed, as well as the measures adopted to more effectively prevent violence exercised by persistent aggressors.
The reinforcement of the model through the implementation of the Viogén II System in the coming months, which will improve the risk assessment mechanisms for victims entering the protection system, along with initiatives such as a new impulse to the training and specialization of professionals of the State Security Forces and Bodies, will strengthen the institutional mechanisms of the Ministry of the Interior in the fight against gender violence.
INTERNATIONAL DAY
Ahead of the celebration on Saturday of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations highlights that violence against women and girls remains the most widespread violation of human rights in the world.
UN Women further recalls that most acts of violence against women are perpetrated by their current or former partners. More than 640 million women aged 15 and over have been subjected to violence by their partner, and 43 percent of homicides with female victims are of gender-based violence, with a tendency to increase compared to other murders of women, especially in Europe.