In Galicia in northwestern Spain, shellfish harvesting is traditionally women’s work. But the clams and cockles the shellfish pickers’ livelihoods depend on are increasingly harder to come by.

So far this year, at least 17 women have been allegedly killed in Spain by their partner or former partner, according to the Equality Ministry. Sign up here. Reporting by Inti Landauro; Editing by ...

Spain’s relative rate of killings of women ranks below that of other European nations like Lithuania and Croatia, and is similar to that of Italy and Germany, according to Eurostat data from 2020.