▲ Aspects of the marches yesterday in Türkiye (on the left) and Guatemala.Photo Afp
Sputnik, Afp, Xinhua, Europa Press and Ap
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, p. 22
Montevideo. Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several cities around the world yesterday to protest on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, when 140 women and girls die every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative. which means one murder every 10 minutes on the planet, revealed a report from the United Nations (UN).
The report “Femicides in 2023: global estimates of femicides committed by intimate partners or family members”, prepared by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), states that a total of 85 thousand were murdered intentional last year.
Of these homicides, 51 thousand (60 percent) were committed by couples or other family memberssummarized the international organization.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called violence against women a shame for humanity, while calling for action to end violence against women and girls.
He stressed that conflict, climate and hunger crises exacerbated inequalities, adding that horrendous sexual violence is used as a weapon of war.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented figures on violence against women in the region, where at least 3,897 were victims of feminicide in 27 countries for which data is available.
The executive secretary of ECLAC, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, explained that at least 11 women were murdered every day for reasons of gender in the region last year, so This painful and unacceptable number reminds us that, despite advances in laws and protocols, feminicide is still present in our region and is the extreme expression of patriarchal and violent patterns..
For his part, Pope Francis condemned violence against women in his X account: “we are all called to say ‘no’ to any type of violence against women and girls. We must fight together so that the human rights and dignity of all people are recognized.”
The secretary general of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, assured: many European countries They do not yet adopt the notion of consent in their definition of rape.
Meanwhile, Greenpeace called for an arms embargo on Israel and denounced the violence suffered by women in a context of war with an event in front of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. Women are not weapons of war. Peace will be feminist or it will not be. Arms embargo on Israel nowclaimed the executive director of the organization, Eva Saldaña, in a message on the social network X.
With candles, banners, images and songs to remember those who are no longer among us, the feminist movement took to the streets of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile, to name a few.
Similar mobilizations occurred in Europe, where sorority stood in different squares, parliaments and streets, scenes where slogans in favor of the rape victim Gisèle Pelicot were a common point in the marches.
At the close of this edition, the lawyer of the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, reported that the president faces a complaint of sexual harassment, an accusation that he denies.
