In August alone, Utopix recorded 20 new femicides, the same as in July, with Lara state leading the national statistics with five murdered women, followed by Bolívar with three cases. They also report 12 frustrated femicides
A total of 151 women were murdered in Venezuela in the first eight months of the year for reasons of gender, which yields an average of one femicide every 38 hours, according to the organization’s most recent report. utopix Posted this Friday, October 7.
“We continue to warn and see with concern that there is no concrete proposal from the State to deal with this problem, which only shows the great shortcoming that exists around public policies related to the prevention, attention and mitigation of gender violence against women. women,” the report says.
In August alone, Utopix recorded 20 new homicides of women, the same as in July, with Lara state leading the national statistics with five women murdered, followed by Bolívar with three cases.
“Most of the victims of femicides were between 16 and 20 years old, in addition to three cases in which the women were between 46 and 50 years old and in four cases the age did not appear in the news,” details the Utopix report, which It is based on information published in digital media.
The organization also speaks of 12 frustrated femicides in August, as well as three Venezuelan women who were murdered in Colombia and Peru during that month.
It is about “giving a voice to those women and girls who died at the hands of femicidal violence, demanding urgent action from the Venezuelan State in the face of the increase in violence and denouncing the impunity that often protects these aggressors,” adds Utopix.
In the last five years, the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office has recorded at least a thousand femicides, some of them frustrated, which has resulted in 1,073 accusations and 412 arrest warrants against the aggressors.
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