San Sebastian SPAIN Femicide in Honduras: from Machismo and Impunity Revistazo.com HONDURAS
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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"They say he killed her because she had told him he would not walk with him, he beat her, but she did not say anything to us, there were witnesses who saw him when killed, but police have not been caught ... she was a good daughter "
says, sighing, Gladys Castro Yinian mother Leonor Martinez, who was murdered by her ex-partner earlier this year.
says, sighing, Gladys Castro Yinian mother Leonor Martinez, who was murdered by her ex-partner earlier this year.
Besides a bereaved mother, The victim leaves behind two orphaned children, one of ten years and one of just four years. Yinian, a native of Tegucigalpa, was also part of the Movement of Women for Peace "Visitation Padilla, an organization that spoke out publicly about it," we are this day with a deep pain for hundreds of women murdered product of domestic violence live
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Despite efforts by the "Chon" for the murder of this young 33 year old does not go unpunished, his assailant, who has a name, step-by neighbors witnessed the crime-free for the Villa Nueva. As her mother's complaint, the police have not done anything about it.
From the murder of female machismo
will not suffice all pages to name half the cases of women who have been murdered in Honduras during this decade, rising to more than 1,300 murders of women in the past 6 years, of which only 54 have been judicialized.
researcher emphasizes Jessica Sanchez in the typology of these murders, "femicide is understood by the fact of intentional killing of gender violence against women, including both deaths here by their husbands or former husbands, partners or former partners in a relationship, including dating and those committed by others or unknown. "
Moreover, the overall increase in homicides in recent years is a fact, but emphasizes that crimes against women grow more rapidly: between 2003 and 2007, the number of killings of men increased by 50%, while that of women increased 160% over the same period.
Why are they killing so many women? was asked to Dalila Aguilar, a member of the Coordinator of Rural Women of Peace (COMUCAP), "are killed by being women, the sense of how we see the man in us, by culture ; sexist and patriarchal. Often they are murdered by their husbands' involvement in organized crime or drug trafficking, and they pay the piper.
According to Preliminary Report: Femicide in Honduras, developed by Oxfam International, the most affected in the case of Honduras are young women between 16 and 30.
The study also cites Ana Carcedo, researcher and coordinator of the Network of Central Violence, who notes that the main perpetrators of murders in the region remain partners or former partners (40.9% ), followed by cameras (12%) and family by 7.8%, while 9.4% of the killings were consequences of sexual assault.
Given the prevailing sexual violence within the patriarchal system, it is not surprising that 10 percent of femicide victims were raped before being killed, but in view the shortcomings of the research process and incompetence of public authorities in the country, it is likely that the relationship between femicide and sexual violence is greater.
A state that allows the killing of Honduran women
ensure that the government is doing nothing to stop this wave of violence against women. For that matter, in the National Plan (2010-2022), approved by Congress in January Nationally, the term "femicide" is not in any paragraph. The phenomenon of violence against women and femicide is completely invisible in this document of almost two hundred pages, to such an extent that not mentioned.
The reactions of the state against these problems are laughable and outrageous even, for that matter, Francisco Murillo López, head of the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DNIC ), considered "normal" so many deaths of women, "for example, today we see women taxi driving a truck and that is where we see that is changing the social culture of Honduras, and therefore death is normal women, "said Murillo López on 10 March at a newspaper.
added that "we must understand that there are several reasons why they have increased the deaths of women in a violent, first and foremost is gender equality, where women are participating in new roles, responsibilities that were once typical of men. "
National Campaign Starts Against Femicide
violence against women and more than one amount per day femicide committed against women in Honduras. That is why before the rise of this phenomenon, the sensationalist treatment of the media and the lack of response from the State to adequately investigate the violent deaths of women and prosecute the guilty, eight organizations and networks of women with extensive work against violence against women, decided together in a collective effort to form the "Platform of Women Against Femicide" and promoted the "National Campaign Against Femicide ".
"The campaign aims to contribute to the decrease in the rate of violence against women and femicide in Honduras, we want to make clear the impunity that prevails and the urgent need that the State provide justice to the perpetrators of these crimes, "says Dulce Ulloa, representative of the Organization of Women Intibucana "The Ants", an entity member of the Campaign.
Maritza Paredes, a member of the Forum of Women for Life (FOMUVI) states that the changes demanded by the Campaign are not superficial, "since the murders of women are related political issues, we require structural changes in attitude and thinking in relation to women's issues. We must think of the victims as people, not numbers or statistics. We have to rescue the person. Recognize the femicide is thinking about those lives cut short, it is the lives of all the Honduran women is at stake, femicide limit development, democracy and peace for the countries. This is not a matter only of families, or women, is a matter for the country, the State must act on it. "
As dictated by the position paper of the campaign, "the survivors and relatives of the victims are asking, when? When will I get answers? When will I know what happened to my sister, my grandmother, mother, wife, my daughter? When I say who is to blame? We need these voices are heard, but more than that, we need answers. Answers to do something, to get them out of anonymity answers, answers to their lives cut short, responses to them. "
Meanwhile, Dona Gladys Castro, like many other women and organizations suing the State will
to truly commit to actions and resources to address violence against women and femicide, for the murder of his daughter, as so many others, not go unpunished. 
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