The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence in rejection of the murder of 29-year-old Diana Marisol in the province of Madrid, and to reiterate its heartfelt condolences to her relatives and friends.
With this terrible murder, there are 47 women killed in 2024 by their partners or ex-partners and 36 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, 1,292 women have already been killed for gender-based violence. Since 2013, 62 children have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers and 469 children have been orphaned by gender-based violence in Spain.
Government Delegate Sabrina Moh, who was responsible for reading the institutional manifesto, stressed that, as a democratic society, “we cannot tolerate any kind of violence against women because they are women.”
“Male violence is a structural violence, based on sexist discrimination, inequality and imbalance in power relations between women and men,” he said, noting that violence against women and girls “violates their fundamental rights to life, liberty, physical and moral integrity, equality and dignity.”
Call to the victim's environment
“Despite the negationist approaches to male violence, we will persevere and continue to move towards a more just, egalitarian society free of male violence,” he said. To this end, an appeal is made to all institutions, administrations and the whole of society to maintain this struggle from unity and firmness.
“The Christmas holidays, which should mean the enjoyment of a space of peace and happiness in the family, many women victims of male violence and their sons and daughters can be at greater risk,” he said.
In fact, he explained that male violence “worsens and that is why we want to remind women to distrust these violent men and their manipulations and to know that they are complying with their threats.” In addition, he has made a special appeal to victims’ environments to be “especially vigilant and to protect” them.
The Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, recalls that telephone 016, and other services for care and advice are available to the whole society. These means of assistance can be activated by the victim and also by anyone who knows or suspects a case of gender violence. “It’s a duty of the whole society,” he concluded.