The good news for the Community of Madrid is that the murders of women at the hands of their partners or ex-partners are not growing and remain, predictably, at one of the lowest numbers – three – since the data was analysed. The bad news is that women continue to die at the hands of their partners or ex-partners. Meanwhile, crimes of sexual violence are increasing: in all of 2024, 1,457 were recorded and so far in 2025, with the year still at the end, the figure is already 8.6% higher, with 1,582 crimes of this type. Despite this, the regional government, chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, stops the implementation of a large part of the regional budgets intended to combat gender violence and promote equality and reduces the budget for the following year. Added to this is the fact that it recently became known that the regional Executive refuses to create its own equality law, making it the only region not to have one.
These are some of the conclusions that the Madrid Workers’ Commissions union has drawn in its report 25-N Against Sexist Violence, for which they have collected data so far in 2025 from the Ministry of the Interior, the General Council of the Judiciary, the Community of Madrid, among others. “Violence against women in the Community of Madrid is structural and manifests itself in various forms, of which murders are only the tip of the iceberg,” claims the union in its document released on Monday.
The three sexist murders in Madrid in 2025 place it as one of the worst regions in Spain (38 so far this year), along with Asturias, Catalonia and Extremadura, which have the same number, and only behind Andalusia (11). The latest sexist crime to occur in the Madrid region was on November 15 in the municipality of Alpedrete, in which a 60-year-old woman was killed at the hands of her husband, a peer, who stabbed her 50 times and then committed suicide.
The CC OO report collected the statistics up to the beginning of November and initially provided the number of two feminicides that occurred in this community, but to these we must add the Alpedrete crime. If another femicide does not occur, Madrid would end the year with one of the lowest historical figures since 2012, the date in which these crimes began to be recorded under a single category. In 2024, four women were killed in this context, but between 2021 and 2023 the figure remained stable at seven per year.
As regards sexual violence crimes, which in 90% of cases are committed against women, the union highlights the modest decrease in penetrative assaults, from 359 in the third quarter of 2024 to 352 in the same period of 2025. The rest of sexual crimes, on the same dates, however, increased by 12%, from 1,098 to 1,230.
Another worrying fact that CC OO highlights is the number of calls to 016, the number through which information, legal advice and immediate psychological attention is offered to all forms of violence against women, is that the majority of victims are those who ask for help rather than the people around them. Of the 16,781 calls that 016 received during 2025 – 20.27% of the national total – only 2,861 were made by family members or close friends of the woman, while they did so on 13,239 occasions.
Furthermore, they underline that the data “indicate a significant disaffection of Madrid women towards the system of protection of victims of gender violence”, since only one of the three murdered this year had filed a complaint against her attacker.
On an administrative level, the implementation of the regional budgets of the “232B program of actions against gender violence and promotion of equality” in 2025 – for which almost 40 million euros have been allocated, plus 12 million from the European Social Fund – leaves much to be desired. Until June, only “16 million euros, or 30.76%”, had been executed. And in 2026 the allocation of this item fell to just over 38 million. This program represents only 1.31% of the budget managed by the Ministry of Family, Youth and Social Affairs.
The report makes a small note on the 2026 budgets and compares them with the item allocated for bullfighting affairs, to which 7.2 million euros have been allocated, “which represent almost 20% of what has been allocated to fight and eradicate the violation of human rights caused by violence against women”.
“To cite an example of the insufficient attention envisaged, for 2026 the number of seven supervised apartments will be maintained for a total of 47 places, of which 12 are intended for women victims of gender violence with intellectual disabilities, while in 2022 eight supervised apartments and 55 places were planned,” underlines the union. “In the same way, it is striking that the two day centers for women victims of gender violence are now also for women at risk of social exclusion, i.e. more users of the same resources”.
“The decrease in budget allocation, as well as its execution, reflects the regional government’s lack of interest in developing effective policies against sexist violence,” the report concludes. Despite all this, the Community of Madrid remains reluctant to develop an equality law. Together with Murcia, this is the only region that does not prepare reports on the gender impact of its Budget Law, which was done before Isabel Día Ayuso assumed the presidency.
