Women call for end to domestic violence after lockdowns bring more attacks
Istanbul, Turkey/Rome, ItalyReuters Women around the world on Wednesday marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, highlighting how lockdowns due to the pandemic had left many trapped with their abusers and exposed to greater danger. The United Nations said that since the outbreak of COVID-19, all types of violence against women and […]
Hundreds of girls, women have disappeared during pandemic in Peru
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in Peru during its coronavirus lockdown, a top women’s rights official said on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a national missing persons register to addressing the “alarming” number of disappearances. Records must be kept to track those who go missing, whether […]
Argentine newspaper publishes massive obituary of femicide victims
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Argentina’s largest newspaper this week published an obituary filling several pages with the names of more than 300 women and girls killed because of their gender, calling attention to the growing crime of femicide. The Clarin newspaper printed the list on Wednesday to mark the five-year anniversary of the South […]
Femicides in Argentina reach 10-year high under coronavirus lockdown
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation The number of women killed in Argentina has reached a 10-year high under coronavirus lockdown, a leading rights group said this week, with more than 50 femicides in less than two months. Three of those women were murdered in just the last four days, according to La Casa del Encuentro, […]
Murders of women in Mexico rise amid fears of lockdown violence
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Almost 1,000 women were murdered in Mexico in the first three months of this year, according to government data, showing a spike in violence that combined with coronavirus lockdown measures, advocates say, puts women in double jeopardy. The rate was eight per cent higher than in the same period last year, according […]
Pitch in with housework, Mexico tells men at home due to pandemic
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Mexico’s government is calling on the nation’s men to pick up a mop, do some laundry and take on more household responsibilities while they are staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Four female officials spoke out at Mexico’s daily COVID-19 briefing on Thursday to remind people that women do […]
Where Latin America women are fighting the world’s highest murder rates
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Women took to the streets over the past year across Latin America – from Mexico and Chile to Argentina and Brazil – demanding governments take action in a region where machismo reigns and gender-based violence is widespread. In Latin America and the Caribbean at least one out of every three […]
Peru pledges government aid for children of murdered women
BogotaThomson Reuters Foundation Peru is to start giving government financial aid to children whose mothers were murdered, in a push to address widespread violence against women, a top official said on Friday. Latin America and the Caribbean have the world’s highest rates of femicide – the killing of a woman by a man due to […]
Rape map and murdered women – welcome to South Africa’s Republic of Sexual Abuse
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation It has its own currency, passports and a blood-stained map, but this is no ordinary country. Welcome to the Republic of Sexual Abuse, the creation of a group of campaigners in South Africa, where a woman is murdered every three hours. The fictional country is the centrepiece of an exhibition […]
El Salvador gang violence stifles progress on gender killings – top prosecutor
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation A year after El Salvador created a special unit to tackle the country’s high rates of killings of women, gang violence stands in the way of getting convictions, a top prosecutor said. El Salvador, a country of six million people, has one of the world’s highest rates of femicide – the […]