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Wednesday 23 February 2011 |
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Gender
Violence
on the
Rise in
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
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At least
100
Honduran
children
have
been
left
motherless
so far
this
year.
In the
wake of
an
escalation
of
gender
violence,
with 50
murders
registered
so far,
many
children
were
left
vulnerable
because
their
mothers
were
single
and
headed
the
family,
according
to local
newspaper
El
Heraldo,
which
adds
that the
rest of
these
children
are in
the care
of close
relatives
or the
State.
Official
bodies
have
been
powerless
in
curbing
the
killing
of women
that is
affecting
the
Honduran
society,
the
newspaper
denounces.
In urban
areas,
one
fourth
of these
women
head
their
families,
and in
rural
areas
the
fraction
is even
higher,
said
Zoila
Madrid,
professor
of Women
Studies
of the
Autonomous
University
of
Honduras.
A recent
study
carried
out by
the
Center
of Women
Studies
found
that
last
year
nine of
every 10
gender
crimes
were
committed
by men
who had
or had
had an
emotional
relation
with the
victim.
Some of
these
murders
were
linked
with the
situation
of
poverty
the
victims
were
living
in, but
the
expert
ruled
out this
as the
main
motive.
However,
Madrid
considers
that the
large
quantity
of
weapons
in the
hands of
the
population
is
directly
linked
to the
murders;
therefore,
she
recommended
a
general
disarmament
of the
population.
Impunity
prevailing
in the
country
is one
of the
causes
of the
wave of
violence
by which
many
women
live in
a
virtual
state of
siege,
in which
they do
not even
feel
safe at
home.
Only
five
percent
of the
feminicides
have
been
solved,
and in
most
cases
only the
victim
and how
she was
killed
is
known,
according
to a
study
cited by
Madrid.
The
expert
called
for
studying
the
effect
of
violence
on the
orphans,
as they
tend to
develop
an
aggressive
conduct.
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