78 women were murdered in Venezuela between January and May, according to Utopix

At least 78 women were murdered in Venezuela between the beginning of January and the end of May this year – 3 fewer than in the same period in 2023 – at the hands of people who were part of their close circles, according to the organization records non-governmental organization Utopix, which keeps this unofficial count of femicides in the country.

“During the first five months of 2024, we recorded 78 completed femicides in our national under-reporting system that were reported in various media outlets,” the report says.

With the total number of cases up to May, the NGO estimates that a woman is killed in Venezuela by gender-based violence every 46 hours, while failed homicide attempts occur every 32 hours.

«Faced with this reality, it is imperative to make it visible and give voice to those women, girls and adolescents murdered at the hands of feminicidal violence, demanding urgent action from the Venezuelan State and society in general in the face of the increase in violence and denouncing the impunity that often protects these aggressors,» The organization stressed.

In the fifth month of the year alone, Utopix recorded 17 completed cases and 17 frustrated cases, while documenting an “increase in cases of migrants, with a total of 9 femicides of Venezuelan women abroad, specifically in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Mexico.”

Utopix, which reported that the 17 cases occurred in Caracas, the nearby state of Miranda and the oil-producing state of Zulia (in the west, bordering Colombia), said that 12 victims were between 26 and 45 years old.

At the end of last year, the government announced that in 2024 it would strengthen a social program focused, among other things, on eliminating violence against women, a plan whose results are unknown, despite the slight reduction in the number of victims.

#27Aug | During the first 5 months of 2024, @utopix_cc recorded in its under-registration, throughout the country, a total of 78 possible completed femicides that were reported in various media outlets.

That is, there was 1 femicide every 46 hours.

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— Codhez (@Codhez) August 27, 2024