In Argentina femicide, the killing of women, it\u2019s a new category of crime recorded in the Criminal Code in 2012 and it\u2019s punished by life imprisonment. Despite the tightening of legislation, murders of women are increasing in the country. Currently, according to statistics, a woman is killed every 18 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the spring of 2015, there had been a succession of atrocious crimes against women in all the country. In those days it was created Ni una menos, a protest movement against gender violence. It was first manifested on June 3, 2015, repeating itself three times in 2016 till the march 8, 2017 historical women\u2019s international strike where 400.000 women marched in Buenos Aires. The movement has spread to other Latin American countries, Europe and USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem is unfortunately common in all the country and particularly serious in the many slums of the cities where criminality is very high and the youngster are in danger. In these places traditional domestic rules and patriarchal composition of society support the violence. Often young girls leave family home in which they suffer domestic violence for a love affair with people belonging to gangs who introduce them to the world of drug or they become victims of human traffic, kidnapped and forced to prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frequently girls between 13 and 16 get pregnant. Often police doesn\u2019t take reports, corruption is very common and women suffer domestic and psychological violence for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My goal is to continue documenting this topic in Latin America. The common line that sadly connect many countries is violence in all its aspects (domestic, psychological, physical, economic, institutional, cultural). I strongly believe that it\u2019s very important to give visibility and voice to victims who doesn\u2019t have it, inspiring more of them to come forward to tell their stories and bring pressure on the governments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Argentina femicide, the killing of women, it\u2019s a new category of crime recorded in the Criminal Code in 2012 and it\u2019s punished by life imprisonment. Despite the tightening of legislation, murders of women are increasing in the country. Currently, according to statistics, a woman is killed every 18 hours. In the spring of 2015,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4171,"menu_order":356,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"edicion":[201],"class_list":["post-4393","finalistas","type-finalistas","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edicion-201"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n