Violent El Salvador takes steps to tackle scourge of femicide

4.5.15

Violent El Salvador takes steps to tackle scourge of femicide: [.dailytimes.com.pk] Last year, nearly 4,000 El Salvadoran women ended up in hospital because of domestic and or sexual abuse in the home. Rights group say gender-based crimes are massively under-reported because fear prevents more women from coming forward. Cornet said she left her husband just in time. But for thousands of El Salvadoran women, domestic violence has ended with their death. Until recently, El Salvador was known as the world’s capital for femicide — defined as the killing of a girl or woman by a man because of her gender. At least 2,250 femicides have been reported in El Salvador from 2010 to September 2014, according to the Organisation of Salvadoran Women for Peace (ORMUSA), a local rights group. The victims’ former or current boyfriends, husbands or family members or friends are often the perpetrators.