The murder of ocho women by their partners or ex-partners during the month of July in Spain caused a new meeting of the Crisis Committee of the Ministry of Equality to be convened yesterday, the fourth since its creation was approved a year ago, on July 22, 2022 , at the Sectorial Conference of the department of Irene Montero that took place in Tenerife.
The Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, was in charge of appearing after the meeting in a telematic institutional statement in which questions from the press were not accepted. Among other issues, the government representative stressed the role of both State institutions and citizens in the face of sexist violence. And not to mention Voxstressed the importance of insisting to youth that sexist violence cannot be relativized “much less denialism.”
Rosell also emphasized the need to show zero tolerance for any type of gender violence, not only the most extreme, and stressed that being intolerant of this scourge “women will know that we will be there when they need us.” The delegate also recalled that “telephone 016 answers 24 hours every day of the year in 53 different languages” since only one of the eight murdered in the month of July had filed a complaint.
Those eight women murdered in July have raised the total number of deaths from gender violence since 2003, the year in which records began, to 1.216. If counted by months, July is the deadliest in the historical series, accumulating 127 including 2023.
Although the Crisis Committee is considered “useful in some aspects” by the regional representatives present at the meeting, these same representatives affirm that “no concrete action comes from there.” One of the people present at the meeting, where the Government Delegation and the Ministries of Equality, Interior and Justice participate, pointed out yesterday that “today only the data for July have been reviewed, the previous ones are not even followed up.” Specifically, what was established on this occasion is “the need to raise awareness from the media, especially among the youngest, and the need to advance in the compensation of minors who are orphaned.”