The Cuban independent feminist platform Alas Tensas announced this Wednesday that 2022 had closed for Cuba with 34 femicide confirmed, two fewer than those recorded in 2021.
Of the 34 cases, two were vicarious femicides, specified the activists who, together with other organizations, collect data on sexist murders in the absence of an official count.
Havana was the region with the most verified cases, eight. Camagüey and Matanzas provinces follow, with five each.
This group had verified 36 femicides in 2021 and 32 in 2020, including four vicarious murders.
Independent activists attribute the rise to the “weak family and community support network” and the lack of reporting.
The most recent official data appears in the 2016 National Survey of Gender Equality, in which 10,698 women were questioned, according to the agency. efe.
The survey revealed that 26.7% of Cuban women between the ages of 15 and 74 have suffered some type of violence in their partner relationship in the 12 months prior to the study.
Only 3.7% of the assaulted requested institutional help.
The independent platforms demand a law against gender violence and criticize the Government for not classifying femicide as a crime in the new Penal Code, approved last May, despite the fact that it contemplates gender-based violence.
Efe/OnCuba.
