The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence to condemn the murder by gender violence (vicarious violence) of a 13-year-old girl in Bilbao, province of Vizcaya, on May 30, 2025, and reiterated its heartfelt condolences to her relatives and friends.
With this terrible murder, she is the second child murdered by her parents or by the couples or ex-couples of their mothers to cause maximum pain to them so far this year.
In 2025, 12 women were murdered by gender-based violence at the hands of their partner or ex-partner and 9 children were orphaned. With the confirmation of this case, the number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 1,306 since 2003, when these data began to be collected.
Since 2013, 64 children have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers and 478 children have been orphaned by gender-based violence in Spain.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has been in charge of reading the institutional declaration and has stressed that, as a democratic society, “we cannot tolerate any type 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.