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Canary Islands Receive 10.2 Million to Combat Gender Violence

The autonomous community will allocate these funds to strengthen prevention, protection, and care for victims, highlighting its high incidence rate.

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Generic image of two hands shaking over a blurred desk with paperwork, symbolizing a funding agreement.

The Canary Islands have been allocated 10.2 million euros by the Ministry of Equality to bolster the fight against gender violence, following an agreement reached at the Sectoral Conference on Equality.

These funds, part of the 179.8 million euros distributed among autonomous communities, will be used for prevention, protection, and comprehensive care for victims. The Canarian counselor, Candelaria Delgado, emphasized the need to increase the budget in this area, given the high incidence rate of gender violence in the archipelago.
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"The Canary Islands is one of the communities with the highest incidence rate of gender violence in relation to its female population."

Candelaria Delgado · Canarian Counselor
According to judicial data from 2025, the Canary Islands rank fourth nationally in victim rates, surpassed only by the Balearic Islands, Navarre, and Valencia, as stated in a press release from the Ministry of Social Welfare. Of the total amount, 9.2 million euros come from the State Pact against Gender Violence, which last year funded 50 different projects managed by the Canarian Institute of Equality (ICI), Justice, Youth, and Education departments.
Additionally, the Canary Islands will receive 396,809 euros for comprehensive social assistance for women and minors, 61,331 euros for programs supporting victims of sexual assault, and 30,584 euros for preventing abuse of minors under guardianship. Counselor Delgado highlighted the severity of the problem, mentioning the number of women murdered and daily emergency service alerts.
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"Gender violence is an extremely serious problem, and to verify it, one only needs to look at the data, the most shocking being the number of murdered women, but also the number of alerts received daily by emergency services, the number of complaints registered in gender violence courts, and the certainty that only 75% of cases are reported."

Candelaria Delgado · Canarian Counselor
The Comprehensive Monitoring System for Gender Violence Cases (Viogén) of the Ministry of Interior records 6,532 active cases of female victims in the Canary Islands under surveillance due to the risk of attack by a current or former partner, half of whom also have minors in their care. The Ministry of Equality reaffirmed its financial commitment to ensure the stability and permanence of public policies derived from the State Pact, aiming for a comprehensive and coordinated response from all institutions.

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