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Gender-based violence against women in Yucatán
The types of violence are analysed: domestic, institutional and feminicide, using the concept of “gender-based violence against women”, in combination with the dimensions of violence proposed by Johan Galtung: interpersonal, structural and cultural/symbolic, to demonstrate that gender-based violence...
Gender-Based Institutional Violence against Women: Paradigmatic Cases in the Mexican State
This article aims to analyze the dimensions of gender-based institutional violence against women —manifested as systemic sexual feminicide and sexual torture– in paradigmatic cases of gender-based violence against women in Mexico that have been reviewed by the Inter-American Human Rights System.
Criminal legal analysis of criminal types aimed at sanctioning femicide under Colombian criminal law. [Criminal legal analysis on crimes aimed at sanctioning feminicide within Colombian criminal legislation]
This article establishes an analysis of the normality created to eradicate gender-based violence against women, mainly addressing the legal implications through the creation of punishable conduct sanctioning the crime of femicide; there is a parallel between the criminal type of femicide created by...
Borderline situations arising from gênery violence resulting from gênero Extreme situations due to gender violence
< p > This text provides an overview of the Seminar Critical Routes III, held in Porto Alegre/Brazil in 2011, the focus of which was borderline situations of gênery violence. Borderline situations are human rights violations that include feminicide or gêner-motivated murder; killings of LGBT p...
Feminicide in the Italian Language: Which Words to Describe Gender-based Violence?
Féminicide : nommer pour exister
From an anthropological and feminist theoretical perspective, this article analyzes proposals for the typification of feminicide, as debated in Brazil, which resulted in the new qualifier included in the country’s Penal Code. The article reports and argues about the importance of explicit feminist i...
Spirituality as a strategy to remark feminicide violence in mothers of victims
In Mexico, the feminist movement has fought for the eradication of feminicide violence, a systematic expression of hatred that harms the lives of women and girls. Based on a qualitative methodology, which focuses on the subjective experience of five mothers of victims, this article makes it difficul...
Informe-diagnostic. Femicide in Chiapas: case studies 2012-2013
The present diagnosis shows femicide from a comprehensive approach involving marginality, tension between tradition and modernity, conflict and gender dissent, greater participation of women in migration processes and impunity for those who engage in violence against women in general, and femicide v...
The ‘feminicide’ law
The ‘feminicide’ law (Law 119/2014) is analysed in its criminal policy law scope and as a first (supposed) legislative step towards a comprehensive, articulated and funded intervention to prevent and combat gender-based violence against women. We criticise the choice of the Decree-Law and analyse th...
The warning mechanism for gender-based violence in Mexico: the existence of a protective regulatory design?
femicide violence is a serious problem that demonstrates to the Mexican State due to its complexity and unquestionable need for immediate attention, through ad hoc mechanisms that show effective action to safeguard the human right to a life free from violence for women. From the legal and dogmaid pe...
Gender-based violence and the risk of feminicide in female students from public and private universities in Lima Metropolitana
The objective of the study is to assess the relationship between attitudes towards gender-based violence and the extreme risk of the partner being a victim of violence or femicide, with female students at public and private universities in Lima Metropolitana, with the tools to use the Actitude Scale...
Género e identidad, elementos en la poesía comprometida de tres poetas chihuahuenses: Arminé Arjona, Susana Chávez y Micaela Solís
By the end of the twentieth century the Mexican border cities experienced an accelerated industrial growth, simultaneously there has been a growing poetic denouncement against feminicide, particularly by female poets. One of the objectives of the artistic, intellectual and artistic collective protes...
The Architecture of Feminicide: The State, Inequalities, and Everyday Gender Violence in Honduras
Increasing exclusion and inequality in Honduras have posed escalating security risks for women in their homes and on the streets. In this article, we examine gender-based violence against women, including gender-motivated murders (feminicides), the everyday acts that can result in their deaths, and...
reaking Silences and Revealing Ghosts: Spectral Moments of Gendered Violence in Mexico
This paper examines recent discourse around gender violence in social media protests in Mexico and a short story collection that anthologizes representations of gender violence in short stories by Mexican women authors as part of a greater genre of anti-feminicide cultural production. I focus my ana...
Violence against women. Current procedural needs, with special reference to Panamá
Objectives This article intends to approach the phenomenon of gender violence and a general view of the response that the Administration of Justice must offer battered women, from their perspective as victims in a judicial process. All this, without losing sight of the fact that all procedural syste...
Quantitative analysis of the use of the term feminicide in the headlines of reports on the murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez, published by CIMAC (Communication and Information of Women A.C.)
This document aims to summarise a complex phenomenon related to the use of the term femicide in the media, specifically in the gender news agency CIMAC (Communication and Information of Women AC). In 1993 it began in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most striking murders of women in recent history....
Introduction
While in general, the family is a synonym of intimacy and trust, it can also be a place of abuse, control, and violence. Since the 1970s, the various forms of violence that take place in private have been denounced by feminist movements and have been the subject of various policies and state actions...
UDI STOP Femminicide
The UDI, the Union of Women in Italy, collaborated with the Observatory of Communications Processes on a monograph of the scientific journal M@gm @ entitled ‘Men and Femicide Violence’. The monograph number aims to make available the analysis, experience and history of our and our interlocutors, as...
Introduction: gender-based violence and international relations
Violence against women (according to the WHO, one in three women worldwide suffers from gender violence) is an issue of global security as well as of human rights. Because these human security violations have a very significant impact on development, conflict, public health and transnational flows,...
Subverting Justice: Socio-Legal Determinants of Impunity for Violence against Women in Guatemala
High levels of violence against women and impunity in Guatemala have reached crisis proportions and have received increased international attention in recent years. The phenomenon of feminicide (e.g., killings of women in the context of state impunity), is widespread in Latin America and particularl...
Releer las novelas de Myriam Laurini
The article proposes a re-reading of Myriam Laurini’s novels in the face of a growing hatred of women not only in Mexico but also worldwide. The author describes violence against women through a ‘brutal realism’ using literature as a weapon for denunciation. She confronts us with a world full of cru...
Feminicide in Chile, more than a classification problem
In 2014, 67 women were killed on grounds of gender in Chile. However, only 40 women were reported as femicides under the legislation in force, which only punishes cases of murder of women in the hands of their partners or ex-partners, excluding other types of gender-based violence, resulting in deat...
Problems with the construction of criminal indicators and the comparative situation of feminicide in Peru
As the trend in other countries in the region continues, feminicide — the murder of women on grounds of gender — has been incorporated into Peruvian legislation as a criminal offence. This inclusion is the result of the interest of the state and civil society organisations in producing policies aime...
Gender-based violence against women in Yucatán
The types of violence are analysed: domestic, institutional and feminicide, using the concept of “gender-based violence against women”, in combination with the dimensions of violence proposed by Johan Galtung: interpersonal, structural and cultural/symbolic, to demonstrate that gender-based violence...
Partner or Former Partner Femicide’s Characterization and Discriminatory Hate Crimes
This article aims to specify a coherent and useful interpretation of feminicide behavior (or as preferred by the author “femicide”), which is included, in a non -uniform manner- in several criminal definitions in Latin American legislations. Indeed, the author asserts the need for an individualized...