The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence in condemnation of the 39-year-old male murder of Karilenia for gender violence in Langreo (Asturias), which occurred on 31 January 2025 and was confirmed yesterday as a male murder, and reiterated its deepest condolences to their families and friends.
With this terrible murder, it is the first woman murdered in 2025 by her partner or ex-partner and 2 minor creatures that have been orphaned.
Since 2003, 1,294 women have already been killed for gender-based violence. Since 2013, 62 children have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers and 471 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.”
Duty of the whole society
“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 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.