Femicides in Peru

Femicides in Peru are murders committed against women within the Latin American country of Peru. Between 2010 and 2017, 837 women were murdered and 1,172 murder attempts were made.[1]

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According to Peru's National Statistics Institute 2014 survey, 32.3% of Peruvian women had at some point experienced physical violence from a spouse or partner,[2] and 11.9% had experienced such in the previous 12 months.[3] The country's national human rights ombudsman's office has estimated that every month 10 women are killed by their partners.[4]

A 2015 study by the same office revealed that from January 2009 to October 2015, 795 femicides were committed, but the courts had issued only 84 sentences between 2012 and 2015.[5] In 81% of the cases of attempted femicide no measures were taken by authorities to protect the survivor, and 24% of women who turned to the justice system for help were later murdered by the very men from whom they had sought protection.[5]

In 2017, between January and September there were 94 femicides, 5,707 sexual assaults and 21,000 assaults. Of the 5,707 sexual assaults, 71.33% of victims were children.[1]

A recent study[6] on intimate femicides in Peru, identified two main risk factors that increase the likelihood to pass from attempted femicide to femicide: past psychological violence and premeditated violence. Between the two, the former had the strongest statistical effect. Reporting a previous aggression did not affect the probability of being a victim of femicide. The same study estimated the Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to premature mortality caused by feminicides. This estimate represented 16,567 years lost between 2011 and 2015. This study used the official data (2011-2015) from the Ministerio de la Mujer y Poblaciones Vulnerables (Registro Administrativo de las Fichas de Feminicidio y Tentativa del MIMP).

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References
  1. "#NiUnaMenos: miles de mujeres marcharán para rechazar la violencia". Perú.com (in Spanish). 25 November 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. "Violencia de Género. Cuadro 8.1 Perǘ: Violencia física contra la mujer ejercida alguna vez por parte del esposo o compañero, segǘn ámbito geográfico". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (in Spanish). 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. "Violencia de Género. Cuadro 8.2 Perǘ: Violencia física contra la mujer ejercida alguna vez por parte del esposo o compañero en los ǘltimos 12 meses, segǘn ámbito geográfico". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (in Spanish). 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  4. "Defensoría: Cada mes 10 mujeres son asesinadas por sus parejas". El Comercio (in Spanish). August 8, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  5. "Tras la presentación del Informe №173: Defensoría del Pueblo pide sanciones más drásticas y efectivas frente al delito de feminicidio. Nota de Prensa №268/OCII/DP/2015" (PDF) (in Spanish). December 10, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  6. Hernández, Wilson; Raguz, María; Morales, Hugo; Burga, Andrés. "Femicidios: Determinantes y evaluación del riesgo". Universidad de Lima, Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
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