Six women and a young girl have been murdered in Spain since the start of January, prompting the Spanish government to call a second emergency meeting of domestic violence experts in less than a month.
Last assembled after the murders of 11 women in December, the crisis committee is now considering a plan to let abused women know if their partners have been convicted of violent offences.
In 2022, 49 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner, and in 2021, there were 43 women killed by these violent attacks.
(ed: In Australia the tally for 2022 was 55 women killed and our population is 25 million to Spain’s 47 million).