The NGO Utopix highlighted that most of the victims were between 36 and 40 years old. In January, one femicide occurred for every 57 hours. The number of femicides of Venezuelans abroad was also highlighted. Eight cases were registered in January alone, specifically in Colombia, Chile and Peru
The NGO Utopix published this Friday the 24th the results of its monitoring throughout the country, where they registered 13 femicides during January 2023 in Venezuela, in addition to 18 femicides in a degree of frustration, that is, they were not consummated by the attackers.
Utopix highlighted, in a Press release, that so far in 2023 a femicide is occurring every 57 hours. Most of the victims were registered in the states of Carabobo (3), Aragua and the Capital District (two each), in addition to Zulia, Barinas, Sucre, Miranda, Portuguesa and Bolívar.
Most of the victims were between 36 to 40 years old and a peak between 16 to 20 years old. In three cases, the age was not reported by the media.
Of the total of 13 cases, in four of them the woman’s body was abandoned on public roads, in two cases the victims were missing and in another two cases the victims suffered torture. Five of the perpetrators are in jail, one of them had a criminal record, another three are on the run, one committed suicide and the organization was unable to obtain information on the rest.
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Due to these femicides, three children were orphaned. In one of the cases reviewed by Utopix, the victim was a Wayuú indigenous woman and in three other cases the relatives of the women reported mistreatment. In addition, three relatives or acquaintances were killed or injured during the event.
The NGO reiterated its concern over the lack of a proposal by the authorities to reduce these figures. “This only shows the great shortcoming that exists around public policies related to the prevention, attention and mitigation of gender violence against women, girls and adolescents.”
Other issues that Utopix highlighted was the number of femicides of Venezuelans abroad. Eight cases were registered in January alone, specifically in Colombia, Chile and Peru.
“Faced with this reality, we must make it visible and give 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,” said the NGO.
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