Femicide rates in LatAm alarming: UN agency

[Judi Lynn]

Femicide rates in LatAm alarming: UN agency
English.news.cn 2015-11-25 14:45:19

SANTIAGO, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- At least 1,678 women were killed in 2014 in 14 Latin American and three Caribbean countries simply because of their gender, a United Nations agency reported Tuesday.

"We cannot allow Latin American and Caribbean women to keep dying due to the mere fact that they are women," said Alicia Barcena, the executive secretary of the Santiago-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

ECLAC released the data in a press release a day ahead of the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

The countries in the region need to improve their administrative records to find out the real number of femicides, and promote adequately funded programs designed to prevent the crime and help victims, said Barcena.

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/25/c_134853773.htm

[MisterP]

1. there's very strong ties to the cartels (themselves founded as far-right death squads

to crush the peasantry): of course they attract rape-murderers looking for the best "hunting grounds," but even more than that they have the full blind-eye of the police, who're okay with "social cleansing" within the lower classes--scum killing off more scum