El Salvador has the highest rate of femicide in the world: Statistically,
every 24 hours a woman is murdered by a man (13.49 deaths per one hundred
thousand women). The number is high despite the very fact that femicide
statistics do not account for forced disappereances of girls and women ... in
the first five months of 2018 alone, 209 disappearances were reported. In
addition, the number is rising significantly, doubling from 2013 to 2017 with
218 femicides a year to 520.
Women are more likely than not to experience gender-based violence. 67.4%
of women report having experienced some sort of it in their lifetime. Again,
the number is high despite involving only the ones "lucky" enough to have
survived the abuse. Of the femicide cases brought to court, only 5% end in a
sentence and only 3% carry a guilty verdict (via).
El Salvador’s femicide crisis is fueled by an ingrained culture of virulent machismo, high levels of gang and narco-violence, and a corrupt, unaccountable police force, untrained in the appropriate handling of gender violence cases. Machismo permeates every sector of society, not only as a central tenet of gang culture but also as an ideology deeply embedded in law enforcement, including among both police and judges. (...) The machista ideology shows no signs of lessening among El Salvadoran youth, who were born after the end of the war. One 2018 OXFAM survey found more than half of young Salvadoran men aged 15-19 believe “women endure violent relationships because they believe violence in a relationship with a man is normal.” Eighty-five percent of young men agreed that “a decent woman should not dress provocatively, nor be out on the streets late at night.”
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photograph (1977) via
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ReplyDeleteYes... Shocking numbers... so horrible.
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