The feminist organization Catholics for the Right to Decide, Nicaragua chapter, reported this Thursday that a total of 53 women and girls died due to sexist violence between January and October of this year.
“The CDD (Catholics for the Rights to Decide) observatory recorded 53 hate crimes against Nicaraguan women and girls,” the organization said in a public statement.
The number of women victims of femicide increased by eight in the last two months, according to figures from Catholics for the Right to Decide, which in the first eight months of 2022 registered 45.
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Among the victims of femicide there are at least three girls, according to the count of the feminist group, which does not take into account the concept of death due to sexist violence indicated in Nicaraguan legislation.
In Nicaragua, girls cannot be recognized as victims of sexist violence, since local laws only admit under the word “femicide” the deaths of women at the hands of men, “in the framework of interpersonal relationships as a couple.”
Under the same legal framework, cases in which a woman is murdered by a stranger or a man who did not have a relationship with her victim are not known as femicides.
According to the records of Catholics for the Right to Decide, at least 62 minors, including children and adolescents, have been orphaned in 2022 as a result of sexist violence.
According to data from the organization, at least 71 women died from sexist violence in Nicaragua in 2021 and a similar number in 2020.
The Government of Nicaragua continues to reopen the Women’s Police Stations after having dismantled them several years ago and recently launched the booklet called “Women, Rights, Laws and Complaint Mechanisms for the Prevention of Femicide”, to educate about sexist violence.
The National Police, for its part, reported 15 femicides in 2021, according to its yearbook statistical. EFE
