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By: EFE
Thursday, October 3
Latin America accumulated more than 4,000 victims of femicide in 2020
At least 4, 091 women were victims of femicide in 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2020, which represents a decrease of 10. 6% with respect to 2019, when 4 were reported, 576 cases, reported this Wednesday the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal).
The agency warned through a statement that despite the decrease compared to the previous year, femicide as Extreme and lethal form of gender-based violence continues to affect thousands of women and girls in the region.
This “ even though it has increased its visibility, state response and pressure exerted It gives en masse for the women’s movements that have expressed their rejection of gender violence
Data by countries
In Latin America, the highest rates of femicide were registered in Honduras (4.7 for each 100, 000 women), Dominican Republic (2.4 for each 335, women) and El Salvador (2.1 per each 100,000 women).
The three countries, however, registered a decrease compared to 2019, like Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Pa Paraguay, Puerto Rico and Uruguay.
Honduras went from 6.1 femicides for each 100, 000 women in 2019 to 4.7 for each 100, 000 women in 2020, while in the Dominican Republic the rate dropped from 2.7 to 2.4 and in El Salvador from 3.3 to 2.1.
Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Nicaragua maintained the same rates of femicide as in 2019, while Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama registered an increase compared to the previous year. Of these, Panama declared the most significant increase, indicates ECLAC.
In the English-speaking Caribbean, four out of nine countries and territories with available data on violent deaths due to gender registered an increase in the rate for each 100, 000 women between 2020 and 2019.
In Granada it rose from 1.9 to 5.5 for each 100, 000 women; in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 0 to 5.5; in Suriname from 1.1 to 2.8; and in Trinidad and Tobago from 2.9 to 3.1. It should be noted that no country or territory in this subregion has a classification of the crime of femicide or femicide.
An obstacle to development and peace
“We will not tire of making visible the violence that affects women and girls in our region on a daily basis and that affects society as a whole, since it constitutes an obstacle to achieving the equality and sustainable development and peace ”, declared the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena.
Femicidal violence is present throughout the life cycle of women, although it is expressed with greater intensity during reproductive ages , noted the Commission.
In absolute terms, on 18 of the 26 countries that report to ECLAC, the highest number of cases of femicide in 2020 corresponded to the age group between 30 and 44 years (344 women).
Adolescents and young adult women between 15 and 29 years represented the second rank with a higher incidence of femicide, with 335 victims in 2020.
It also generates an alert, according to ECLAC, the situation of girls and adolescents in the region: at least 40 girls under 15 years were victims of femicide.
The agency detailed that the indicator Regional is an approximation because there is still no common methodology to generate standardized statistics on this crime and that the data can be found in the consolidated data generated from the figures provided by the governments.
Violence against women and girls is rape of human rights and the right of women to live without violence is included in international agreements . Worldwide, only the 44 Percent of women seek help after suffering violence, which forces institutions to promote prevention and aid policies.
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