MIAMI, United States. – The Gender Observatory (OGAT) of the feminist magazine tautwings it counted 34 femicides that occurred in Cuba throughout 2022.
“Of the 34 violent deaths, two were classified as vicarious femicides. This type of femicide is understood as the murder of a woman or underage children, by a man as an instrument to cause harm or harm to another woman,” he explained. taut wings in a twitter thread.
According to the magazine and its observatory, the provinces with the highest number of cases were Havana, with eight femicides; and Camagüey and Matanzas, with five each.
“Carrying out a complete record of the deaths of women due to sexist violence entails numerous difficulties and risks, because the island’s regime has been in charge of criminalizing all kinds of political activism, and also inhibits any possible citizen complaint,” he lamented. taut wingsone of the three independent platforms that, along with YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and the Cuban Women’s Network, counts sexist crimes on the island.
“We cannot fail to thank the courage of families, neighbors and citizens, who have denounced, on their social networks or through private means, the cases of femicides that have occurred in their respective communities,” added the post on Twitter.
“We also have to highlight the work with other observatories and independent press media, in the verification of the femicides that occurred this year,” he stressed.
“Let’s remember that accounting for sexist violence helps us to propose public policies that help eradicate it. Naming the femicides is doing justice, ‘the most basic exercise of reparation with all the victims of sexist violence,’” she declared.
At the end of last year, it emerged that the feminist platform Mundo Sur had included Cuba, for the first time, in your report “Latin American Map of Feminicides (MLF)”.
Due to the increase in femicides and the defenseless situation of women on the island, last November the Cuban Women’s Network, together with other organizations defending women’s rights, He launched the bell #WeHaveNameto demand a gender law that guarantees protection standards for women.
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