In Guatemala, violence against women is the number one reported crime with 52,447 complaints in 2022, 197 per day and 532 femicides; however, only 20 percent of the GBV complaints filed that year were resolved. Men are the main perpetrators of gender-based violence in Guatemala. Evidence indicates that the root causes of GBV can be narrowed ...

05/02/2021 May 2, 2021. At least 160 women have been killed in the first four months of 2021 in Guatemala — more than one per day. Amid more than 20,000 complaints of violence, few facilities ...

Guatemala’s democratic backsliding accelerated during 2023 with corruption weakening the country’s democracy and justice system. ... intimidation, threats, and violence against women—against ...

Mar 15, 2023 · Only tiny fractions of reported cases of gender-based violence lead to punishment in Guatemala, with impunity for femicides especially high. “The violence stems from – first and foremost – structural inequalities.” One of the Virgen de la Asunción shelter survivors is Nayeli Flores, 13 years old at the time of the fire.

towards addressing femicide and other forms of violence in Guatemala. 13. A few government offices provide social services for survivors of violence. The Institute of Public Criminal Defense provides survivors of domestic violence with free legal, medical, and psychological assistance.32 The Office of the Ombudsman for Indigenous Women

Sep 4, 2002 · been implicated in cases of sexual violence. A number of the victims of killings were under 18 years of age.6 Among the women killed over the last few years in Guatemala are students, housewives and professionals, domestic employees, unskilled workers, members or former members of street youth gangs and sex workers. While the

In response to violence against women, the government has passed laws and created agencies in order to stunt the high rates of gendered violence in Guatemala in the 1990s: in 1996 it enacted Ley para prevenir, sancionar y erradicar la violencia intrafamiliar (Law on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Domestic Violence). [49]

Sep 2, 2023 · This analysis contains data about the Continuum of Violence Against Women: a citizen security and human rights issue. Sources: Data generated by the Fiscal and Technical Information System Department (SIFT Spanish acronym) on 14 March 2023, INE validation is pending. National Civil Police (PNC)-Statistics Section, INE validation is pending. Demographic projections as per the 2018 CENSUS and ...

New York, NY, March 5, 2024 — Gender-based violence continues to affect women and girls in Honduras and Guatemala, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warned after analyzing data collected during the implementation of protection programs since 2021. The IRC processed information provided by 1,072 women who have accessed case management services through a program implemented in Honduras ...

Guatemala ratified the Inter-American C onvention to Prevent, Sanction, and Eradicate Violence Against Women (Belém Do Pará Convention) in 1995,2 which established, for the first time, a woman’s right to live free of violence, defined violence against women, and ca lled for the development of laws and