A woman in the Spanish cold case identified after 20 years as Ludmila Zavada

Valdessi Urkis, Secretary -General of the International Police Agency Interpol, which is campaigning, said the last identification would give “fresh hope to the families and friends of missing persons” and “new presenters” to investigators.

“After 20 years, an unknown woman has returned her name,” he said.

The body of G -Ja Zavada was discovered in July 2005 to the road in Barcelona province in northeastern Spain.

She was referred to by police as “the woman in pink” because she was dressed in pink floral top, pink pants and pink shoes.

Local police said the cause of death was “suspicious” as the evidence suggests that the body was moved to 12 hours before it was found.

But the investigations failed to reveal her identity.

Last year, the case was added to Operation Idente Me, which saw Interpol “Black Notices” – looking for information about unidentified bodies – published to the public for the first time, and recordings as fingerprints shared with police forces around the world.

Earlier this year, the Turkish police held fingerprints through a national database, revealing the identity of Gja Zavada.

After that, a DNA match was established with a close relative in Russia.

Police investigations on the death of G -Ja Zavada and the circumstances around it continue.

The first woman identified by the campaign was 31-year-old Rita Roberts of Wales, who was killed in Belgium in 1992. Her family said she had been worried for decades without knowing what had happened to her.

Earlier this year a woman found dead in a bird shed in Spain was Identified as a 33-year-old Ayaga Izaga Lima, from Paraguay in South AmericaS The circumstances surrounding her death were described by police as “inexplicable”.

Police are still trying to find the identity of other 44 women found dead in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. The greater part of them are victims of murder, which are believed to have been between the ages of 15 and 30.

Interpol said that increased global migration and human trafficking have led to more people have been reported to have disappeared outside their countries, which can make identification authorities more challenging.

An employee of the BBC told the BBC that women were “disproportionately affected by gender -based violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault and traffic.”