The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence in condemnation of the murder of 34-year-old Ilham for gender violence in Badajoz on 4 August 2025.

With this new murder, the number of women killed by their partners or ex-partners has risen to 24 so far in 2025, and 16 children have been orphaned.

Since 2003, when data on gender-based violence began to be officially recorded in Spain, 1,318 women have been killed for gender-based violence. Since 2013, 65 girls and boys have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers, and 485 minors have been orphaned by this cause.

The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, has expressed her condemnation and has shown her closeness and support to the families and environments of the victims. In this regard, she has insisted that violence against women “is a problem that challenges the whole of society”.

For this reason, it has called for institutional and social unity in the face of discourses that minimize or deny this reality. “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.

The highest representative of the Government of Spain in the city has stressed the importance of education in equality from the earliest ages. “Only with education, prevention, justice and effective protection can we build a society free of male violence,” he said.

From the Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, it is recalled that telephone 016 and the other services of attention and advice are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and are accessible to all people.

On the other hand, it is also recalled that in an emergency situation you can call 112 or the emergency telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062). In case it is not possible to make a call and in a situation of danger, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal will be sent to the police with geolocation.

These means of assistance can be used both by victims and by anyone who knows or suspects a situation of gender violence.