The Government Delegation in Melilla has joined this noon in the minute of silence that has been carried out in all the Delegations, Sub-Delegations of the Government and the Island Directorates of the General Administration of the State, to convey its strongest condemnation for the murder by violence of a two-year-old baby, in the province of Jaén, last Thursday, November 28, 2024, and the murder of Leonor, 45 years old, allegedly killed by his partner last Saturday, November 30, in the province of Gipuzkoa.
The head of the Government Delegation, Sabrina Moh, has been in charge of reading the Institutional Declaration of the Ministry of Equality on the occasion of these two murders.
With this terrible murder, 9 boys and girls have been killed by their parents or by the couples or ex-couples of their mothers to cause maximum pain to them. Since 2013, 62 boys and girls have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers.
In 2024, 43 women were murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners and 32 under-age persons were orphaned. Since 2003, 1,288 women have been killed by gender violence and 465 girls and boys have been orphaned by gender violence in Spain since 2013.
As Moh pointed out, “as a democratic society, we cannot tolerate any kind of violence against women because we are women.” “Male violence is a structural violence, based on sexist discrimination, inequality and imbalance in power relations between women and men,” he said, adding that violence against women and girls violates their fundamental rights to life, freedom, physical and moral integrity, equality and dignity.
“Despite the negationist approaches of male violence, we are going to persevere and we are going to continue moving towards a more just, egalitarian society and free of male violence,” he said and, to this end, he has appealed to all institutions, administrations and the whole of society to maintain this struggle from unity and firmness.
The Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, recalls that the telephone 016 and the different resources put in place work 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Advice on available remedies and the rights of victims of all forms of violence against women can be sought at 016.
On the other hand, it also recalls that in an emergency situation you can call 112 or the emergency phones of the National Police and the Civil Guard or use the application ALERTCOPS, from which an alert signal will be sent to the police with geolocation.
These means of assistance can be activated by the victim and also by anyone who knows or suspects a case of gender violence. It is a duty of the whole society.