Venezuela registered 14 femicides in July

At least 14 women were murdered in Venezuela in July, when sexist violence continued to add victims in the country, according to records from the non-governmental organization Uotpix released this month. Wednesday.

The report indicates that Caracas and eight other entities registered one case each, while in the state of Miranda five completed femicides were documented, among them that of a 17-year-old teenager who was murdered in Petare, the largest neighborhood in the country. .

Regarding the ages of the other victims, eight were between 22 and 31 years old and another three between 50 and 60 years old, while the age of the two remaining cases was not provided by the organization.

The report also reports another 14 homicides of Venezuelan women abroad, 6 of them in Colombia, 3 in the United States, 2 in Mexico, 2 in Guyana and 1 in Peru.

The NGO also counted 16 frustrated femicides, for which it reiterated the call to the State to develop “urgent actions against the increase in sexist violence” and denounced the “impunity that often protects these aggressors.”

With the July records, the total number of fatalities rose to 104, which gives an average in the country of one feminicide every 47 hours, while another woman suffers physical and psychological violence – but not lethal – every 36 hours.

Utopix stressed that its data represents an under-record of reality, since it is based exclusively on the cases reported in the media, which is why it estimates that the number of victims of sexist violence is higher.

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