2024-01-03 20:45:00
Cecilia Strzyzowski, Marlene Quiroga, Valeria GancedoSusana Juárez, Griselda FuentesNoelia Vilches and Cecilia Góngora are just a handful of names of the victims of sexist violence that left this 2023. According to the National Registry of Femicidesthe number rose once more compared to the previous year, yielding a total of 254 cases throughout the country.
The data collected by the MuMaLa National Observatory mark a 9% increase in femicideslinked femicides and trans-transvesticides compared to 2022 and 15% compared to 2021.
According to this report, 33% of last year’s victims were murdered with a knife27% with a firearm, 15% beaten, 13% by suffocation and 6% burned.
Another notable aspect has to do with the place of attacks: he 61% of femicides occurred in the victim’s home, 11% in that of the perpetrator and 12% on public roads. Furthermore, two out of every ten homicides occurred in the early morning.
The survey also details that there were seven suicides by femicides and 572 attempted femicides. In turn, it reveals that a total of 284 boys, girls and adolescents lost their mothers due to sexist violence.
Meanwhile, the report states that Neuquén, Chaco, Formosa and Santiago del Estero They were the provinces with the highest homicide rate during 2023.
From the NGO they showed their concern regarding the increase but also regarding the regressive policies that the government of Javier Miley. “Faced with this alarming balance, we are concerned regarding these statistics and the regressive, repressive and adjustment policies enunciated and carried out by Javier Milei,” they highlighted in the survey.
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“Milei has always been a denier of gender violence and other situations of violation, inequalities and injustices that women and dissidents go through in Argentina,” they expanded.
From MuMaLa they also criticized the elimination of the Women’s Ministry: “A few days following taking office, the rapid decision was already reflected that women and dissidents are once once more the main victims of the shock adjustment that is being carried out. It eliminated one of the most important and strategic institutions such as the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity. One of the great achievements of women and dissidents in our country, as have also been other rights that represent great advances and in turn placed Argentina in a vanguard place in the world.”
And they asked: “The MuMaLa organization, aware of the implications of a far-right government, We call for the unity of feminist organizations, to build political options and to resist with more organization the different political actions that put at risk everything we have achieved throughout our history. “We will continue fighting for a present State with effective policies and an appropriate budget, to make possible a society free of violence and discrimination.”
The NGO’s data highlights the numbers of previous jobs: in In 2022 there were 233 femicides y in 2021 221an evident example of all the work that needs to be done so that no more women die from gender violence in Argentina.
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