Naming Femicide to Fight Violence Against Women in Ecuador

[Judi Lynn]

Naming Femicide to Fight Violence Against Women in Ecuador
By Ángela Melendez

QUITO, Mar 25 2013 (IPS) - Ecuador hopes to move forward in the fight against violence against women by typifying femicide – gender-motivated killings – as a specific crime in the new penal code.

The first statistics on gender violence in this South American country were presented in 2012, indicating that 60 percent of women had suffered some kind of mistreatment.

The aim now is to include the crime of femicide in the penal code reform introduced in Congress in late 2011. The new code is expected to be approved by the legislature to be sworn in on May 24.

The bill describes femicide as the murder of a woman “because she is a woman, in clearly established circumstances.”

It goes on to describe these circumstances: the perpetrator unsuccessfully attempted to establish or re-establish an intimate relationship with the victim; they had family or conjugal relations, lived together, were boyfriend/girlfriend, friends or workmates; the murder was the result of the “reiterated manifestation of violence against the victim” or of group rites, with or without a weapon.

More:
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/naming-femicide-to-fight-violence-against-women-in-ecuador/

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How many fetid bags of goo should we expect to slime their way to this forum to post that these nasty crimes against women should be laid at the feet of Ecuador's President Correa?

Gee, it must be his POLICIES behind all these filthy killings, right?

OF COURSE, NOT.

[Bacchus4.0]

1. Colombia reduced violence over the long term due to policies

I believe Brazil has had success too. 20,000 people murdered a year including 25% by the national police and putrid corpse worshipers maintain there is nothing a government can do and should just focus on important issues like expropriations, making fake claims about literacy, and shutting down media thats not favorable to the government.

I wouldn't expect to hear anymore about violence in Honduras then either since obviously security isn't that important to a society compared to subsidized gasoline for the middle class and wealthy or to Cuba. Yes, we need to get our priorities straight.

[sabrina 1]

2. Calling DUers 'putrid corpse worshipers' two ps btw,

doesn't give you much credibility. Or were you referring the people of Venezuela and all the other nations, too many to name, who paid their respects to one of SAs most popular leaders?

[idwiyo]

3. K&R