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CENTRAL AMERICA
NEWS
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17 November 2010 |
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More
than 260
Women
Murdered
in
Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA
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More
than 260
women
were
murdered
this
year in
Honduras
and 90
percent
of
crimes
go
unpunished,
women
rights
advocacy
organizations
denounced
Tuesday.
Carolina
Sierra,
coordinator
of the
Forum of
Women
for
Life,
lamented
the rise
of
violent
deaths
by
gender
and the
weak
legal
structure
that
prevents
finding
and
punishing
the
guilty.
As for
the
causes
of
violence,
Sierra
said
first
patriarchal
system
of
society
and the
increase
in
organized
crime,
human
trafficking
and drug
trafficking.
Last
year
there
were 407
females
killed
in
Honduras.
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