The number reached 251 femicides in 2022, an unfortunate scenario for women in Colombia. Valle del Cauca and Antioquia, the departments where they were most recorded.
Colombian News.
The year 2022 ended with a chilling figure; 251 cases of femicides in Colombia that have organizations that defend women’s rights on alert.
According to the Feminicides Colombia Foundation, in 2022, 251 femicides were registered.
For Yamile Roncancio Alfonso, director of the Fundación Feminicidios Colombia, “not only the total number of completed femicides is worrying, but also the methods they use to murder women and the cruelty we have seen.”
- “Quite a few dismemberments and disposals in the bag, mechanical suffocation, previous disappearance and previous or concomitant sexual violence, as well as vicarious violence in which girls and boys are used as a form of revenge.”
Roncancio, in an interview with Noticias Caracol, added that “what triggers these aggressors are generally the autonomous decisions of women to end relationships in which there has been violence that has been previously reported and has not been adequately addressed by the authorities”.
Departments with more femicides in Colombia in 2022:
- Valle del Cauca with 29 cases
- Antioquia with 19
- Bogota with 18 cases
Methods:
- Dismemberment and dispositions in the stock market.
- Mechanical asphyxia.
- Prior disappearance and prior or concomitant sexual violence.
In Colombia the Law it drastically penalizes assaults against women, and the Rosa Elvira Cely Law has been in force for seven years.
Types of gender-based violence:
- sexual violence.
- sexual exploitation.
- Recruitment of boys and girls.
- Multiple discriminations.
- Other reasons are displacement, disability, LGTIBQ+, ethnicity, etc.
According to UN WOMEN, more than 2 million women and girls “were at risk of gender-based violence in 2022.”
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The departments where the most femicides occurred in Colombia in 2022 were:
- Valle del Cauca with 29 cases
- Antioquia with 19 cases
- Bogota with 18 cases
The State has enabled the Purple Line, which is aimed at women over the age of 18 who identify themselves as experiencing any type of violence.
The website www.feminicidioscolombia.org is also authorized to denounce.
Attention to victims:
- Call the Purple Line 018000112137.
- Write to WhatsApp number 300 755 1846
- Write to the email [email protected].
- Line 100.
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