The Ministry of Equality has convened a crisis committee for this Friday, June 2, to evaluate the latest murders due to gender violence in May, and which accumulate five fatalities.
“In the month of May, five women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners. We convened the Crisis Committee to analyse case by case and strengthen the institutional response capacity to protect all women against sexist violence”, wrote the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, on her Twitter account.
This is the third crisis committee convened by the Ministry, after the first in December 2022 and the second in January 2023. In these meetings it was decided, among other measures, that this committee would meet whenever five victims were reached in a single month, as has been the case in May.
This announcement comes after the Government Delegation against Gender Violence confirmed on Tuesday that the murder of a woman in Álava this weekend is a new sexist crime.
So far in 2023, 20 women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners and 1,204 since data was available, 2003.
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