Venezuela closed the first half of the year with 94 femicides, according to the NGO Utopix

A total of 94 women were murdered in Venezuela in the first half of the year as a result of femicide violence, according to the non-governmental organization Utopix, which documents known cases. through the media.

In his reportThe NGO explained that the 94 femicides result in an average of one woman murdered in Venezuela – generally by people who were part of their closest circles – every 35 hours, which is why it considers it “imperative to make this reality visible” and “give a voice to these murdered women, girls and adolescents.”

The figure represents a slight decrease compared to the same period in 2023, when 99 fatal victims of gender violence were recorded in the country, according to Utopix, which considers its figures an underreporting of the actual total number of cases that – it estimates – occur in the country.

We are “demanding that the Venezuelan State and society in general take urgent action against the increase in violence and denouncing the impunity that often protects these aggressors,” the feminist organization said.

In her opinion, it is important to “raise the alarm about the urgency of implementing a concrete proposal to address this problem,” with ideas such as a “feminist plan for the prevention, care and mitigation of gender violence against women, girls and adolescents.”

Utopix reported that in June alone there were 16 femicides, 12 attempted homicides, and 9 committed abroad, including Venezuelan women in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Portugal.

At the end of 2023, the government of Nicolás Maduro announced that in 2024 it would strengthen a social program focused, among other points, on the elimination of violence against women, a plan of which the results are unknown.

#CounterCollection Miranda is the region with the most murdered women in #Venezuela so far in 2024, totaling 11 cases. The Metropolitan Area follows on the list with 8 and Carabobo with another 7 cases. https://t.co/B4WOMJeRdf pic.twitter.com/3D3OFQxGW7

— Cotejo (@cotejoinfo) September 4, 2024

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