The Government Delegation in Melilla this morning joined 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 of María del Rosario, 32 years old, in the province of Mallorca, last Tuesday and reiterate its heartfelt condolences to her relatives and friends.
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 this murder that already raises 44 women killed in 2024 at the hands of their partners or ex-partners and 34 minor creatures that have been orphaned.
In addition, 9 boys and girls have been killed by their parents or by the partners or ex-partners of their mothers to cause maximum pain to them.
Since 2003, 1,289 women have already been killed for gender-based violence. Since 2013, 62 children have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers and 467 children have been orphaned by gender-based violence in Spain.
“As a democratic society, we cannot tolerate any kind of violence against women because they are women,” said Moh, who recalled that male violence “is a structural violence, based on sexist discrimination, inequality and imbalance in power relations between women and men.”
“Violence against women and girls violates their fundamental rights to life, liberty, physical and moral integrity, equality and dignity,” she said.
“Despite the negationist approaches to male violence, we are going to persevere and we are going to continue moving towards a more just, egalitarian society 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.”
In addition to the head of the Government Delegation, the Head of the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women, Laura Segura; the Provincial Director of the TGSS and the INSS, Augusto Hoyo; the Provincial Director of the Social Institute of the Navy, Pedro Pajares; the General Secretary of the Government Delegation, Sana Abdeslam; the Local Head of Traffic, José Carlos Romero; as well as heads of the Civil Guard and the National Police, among others, have met.