After monitoring the country’s digital media, the NGO found that in June the states with the highest number of femicide cases were Miranda, Carabobo, Lara, Falcón and Portuguesa, with two each state. Then they are followed by Bolívar, Zulia, Anzoátegui and Aragua with one each.
The non-governmental organization Utopix reported this Monday, August 8, that in the first half of this year 111 femicides were recorded in the country; which means a femicide every 39 hours. In 2020 femicides increased alarmingly to one every 34 hours and in 2021 there was one every 36 hours; in 2016 they recorded one every 72 hours.
Since utopix they view with concern the absence of concrete proposals by the State to face this problem and that it only denotes the error in public policies related to the prevention, attention and mitigation of gender violence against women.
In the month of June, the organization observed an increase in frustrated femicides, with a total of 16 cases and eight femicides of Venezuelan women abroad, specifically in Colombia, Peru, the United States and Spain. They assure that from this reality, those women and girls who died at the hands of femicidal violence must be made visible and given voice and they demand urgent action from the Venezuelan State in the face of the increase in violence and denouncing the impunity that often protects these aggressors.
After monitoring the country’s digital media, the NGO found that in June the states with the highest number of cases were Miranda, Carabobo, Lara, Falcón and Portuguesa, with two each state. Then they are followed by Bolívar, Zulia, Anzoátegui and Aragua with one each.
Most of the victims of femicides were between 16 and 20 years old, with a peak between 26-36 years old, in addition to one case in which age was not reflected in the news. In five cases, the femicides used firearms, one case was by knife, three cases the cause was mechanical asphyxiation, two cases due to obstetric violence and three cases the cause of death is unknown.
In addition, of the total of 14 cases, in five the victim’s body was abandoned on public roads, in two cases the women were missing and one of the victims suffered sexual abuse.
According to the organization’s data, six of the victims were mothers; therefore, 11 boys, girls and adolescents were left homeless, in five cases the women’s relatives report mistreatment, two women were pregnant and in four cases there is a history of harassment.
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