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FEMICIDE
HEIDY MURILLO CALVO
Femicide
CONCEPT• Femicide is the killing of a woman by her ,
and is directly linked to the exercise of power, control, domination of men to women.
Belem do Pará Convention
• Understand violence in a specific way, resulting in historically unequal power relations between women and men and causing death, bodily harm, sexual or psychological harm to a woman.
In Costa Rica
• According to Ana Hidalgo .. "70% of homicides in Costa Rica are related to gender factors.
• http://www.radiofeminista.net/favicon.ico
Sexual Violence,Violence in dating
relationships,Domestic Violence.
PENALTY ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
• This law recognizes the existence of femicide in cases where violence was perpetrated by husbands and partners in the union, but does not include ex-partners or other men who maintain family ties to the victims.( art 21 LCVM)
• (art 21 )- Femicide
Shall be punished by imprisonment of twenty to thirty and five years of death who a woman to keep a marriage relationship, together with the fact declared or not.
• http://www.poder-judicial.go.cr/salatercera/leyes/Leyes%20en%20pdf/Ley%20Penalización%20violencia%20contra%20las%20mujeres%20(Sinalevi).pdf
INAMU
• According Ivania Arias, press officer of the National Institute of Women in Costa Rica, INAMU, to July 27, 2009 there were 21 murders of women in Costa Rica.
ALARMING FIGURES
CAUSES MEN WOMEN
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
6,94% 38,24%
PASSIONATE PROBLEMS
1,39% 17,65%
MEDIA AND VIOLENCE
• These events are marked by sensationalism, to highlight what most outstanding and not worry about the bottom of the causes or trying to provide an interpretation of reality, the act of calling femicide as a crime of passion is a large element of acquittal of aggressors.
Figures
• United Nations figures provided by state: More than sixty million women who should be alive, have disappeared as a result of domestic violence.It is estimated that between 5 and 7 women will be subjected to rape.
About 50% of women have experienced abuse by their partner
RELATION• Now recognized that the
perpetrators of femicide are people who have family or emotional ties with their victims.
PROTECTION• By 1997, legal protection
against violence against women worldwide, covering only a quarter of the country.
STATISTICS
Nº DEATHS
CouplesEx-parnertFamilyUnknown
¿Who are the murderers?
• These murderers can be peasants, guards, shopkeepers, clerks, students, or can be anyone. There is no profile so to speak.
Hatred and cruelty: an instrument of death
One of the most important of these is the cruelty femicide, that is, not just those women were killed, is a terrible cruelty in most cases.
THERE ARE WITNESSES, SOCIETY IS SILENT
Breaking the silence is not enough, especially when we are not a caring society.
Prevention, safety measures.
DANGER WARNINGWhen a woman sees that her partner,
boyfriend, first began insulting her, then shove, then says ugly things, then the controls, do not let go, do not let it go where their friends, where his family, we have to capture all those messages, it is best to seek help.
Solutions
We dump our eyes to new generations, that is to educate our children in a way that we do not see violence as a solution to our personal problems.
Educate without distinction of genera and forget about the patriarchy.
Bibliography
http://www.alianzaintercambios.org/files/doc/1167172682_1167167473_Informe.
http://www.todanoticia.com/6407/costa-rica-registra-5-femicidios/.
www.radiofeminista.net http://www.poder-judicial.go.cr/salatercera
/leyes/Leyes%20en%20pdf/Ley%20Penalización%20violencia%20contra%20las%20mujeres%20(Sinalevi).pdf.
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