For tacuazín Morales
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Tegucigalpa, March (SEMlac) .- 'Vilma' works with his daughters Comayagüela market in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras . In January 2009 he heard the desperate call from his daughter, Maria Soledad, 21, who had been shot in the back a few blocks from his job, while headed to lunch.
"I arrived in time to be held. There I bled to death while waiting for a taxi to take her to hospital," says the woman, whose real name rather hide, for fear of reprisals.
Maria Soledad was five months pregnant at the time of his murder and had a young son two years left in the care of the grandmother. Cáceres thinks that those responsible for the death of her daughter are members of the National Police, and who had previously received death threats and illegal searches of their homes by the delegates from the police station of their colony. María Soledad life partner was a member of a gang (gang in American slang).
"I think his death was revenge passed us by saying that this would happen, she would pay for it and so far I think everything was forgotten, because the times I've gone to the prosecutor not make me If and when I return, here I feel threatened because they are cops, "she told SEMlac. Vilma
referred to the Office of Women, Public Ministry agency in charge of crimes against women. It currently has a dedicated office for crimes against the lives of women, with representation in eight regional and 12 national prosecutors.
"I'm very sad, but I move on. There are no answers for us, no
support so I have to work and let things happen, because I have grandchildren who keep "he continues.
The case of María Soledad is added to the more than 2,000 murders of women committed in the past eight years in the country, according to national campaign against the femicide in the country, of which 1,010 are for the period 2008-2010, reports Oxfam-Honduras.
The highest peak of these crimes occurred in 2009, when 407 murders were committed, according to the Office of Women, compared to 351 in 2010. Femicides research in Honduras, presented by the Platform of Women against Femicide, bringing together various women's organizations at national level notes that 2009, the year of the coup, there were more murders of this type due to fracture of the State's institutions.
At that time, instances of justice not only deal with complaints of violations of human rights of women, but became, as in the case of the police, agents oppressors and violators of these rights. Met
Between 2009-2010, 456 cases of violations of human rights of women, including death threats, physical attacks and verbal abuse, rape and sexual abuse among others, reported in the report submitted by the organization Feminists Resisting the Court Human Rights in August 2010.
In the current year have been reported to the Office of Women over 60 murders of women, so the trend seems to match that of 2009, with violent deaths of women per day. In a country with little more than eight million people, where women constitute 51 percent of the population, the problem seems to worsen as an estimated 10 deaths occur per 100,000 women, with little or no response from the State indicates the same source.
The impunity that accompanies these cases is also reflected in its prosecution, and that between 2008 and 2010 only 221 cases managed to enter the courts for criminal matters and the trial courts barely reached 58, which 48 correspond to resolutions for the victims, reported the Office of Women and the Judicial Electronic Documentation Center.
Gladys Lanza, the representative of the Movement of Women for Peace "Padilla Visitation, SEMlac ensures that" the situation is serious, both because the problem itself, as the institutional decline in the administrative of justice, in which people do not trust. "
In his view, the situation created in the context of the coup has not been overcome, violations continue to occur and has not responded to the cases presented, despite the claims of the feminist movement and women.
New scenario:
political violence research "Femicide and Impunity: The War Against Women defines, among other findings, the context, roles and actors involved in the violent deaths of women. These scenarios, the study correspond to the couple's seven percent, organized crime (trafficking in persons and narcotics) in 22 percent of "revenge against third parties" in 13 percent and political violence at three percent .
The latter, although not new in Honduras, is identified in a recent women's participation in political activities of state post-coup popular resistance.
The report "The continuation of the coup and impact on the lives of women ", issued by resistance feminist in the past year, shows that through August 2010 reported nine cases of femicide in which the families and colleagues of the victims described as a cause of death, the direct involvement of these women in politics of resistance.
This scenario is not accepted by the Judicial branch agencies responsible for the Administration of Justice, or by other state entities, however, is defined as such by the feminist movement and women , which requires public recognition and demand action on this issue.
While figure of femicide is not contained in Honduran law, they have been created units to prevent and combat crime in both the Public Ministry and the National Police.
In the Office of Women there is unity of crimes against the lives of women, including trafficking in women and femicide, and within the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DNIC) was created Femicides unit.
However, these units are facing serious difficulties, at the discretion of the women's movement. Dulce Ulloa, Intibucana Organization of Women, "The Ants," he said to SEMLAC that "we must not forget that the main actor is still unknown, which leads us to believe that there are flaws in the criminal investigation."
Estimates indicate that over 60 percent of the murders occurring in stage unknown and almost 70 percent of offenders are also unknown.
"These are data of the judiciary, the prosecutor, the police are heavy data. We can not believe that, in most cases, simply is not known who is to blame," said Ulloa, in favor of "no political will, or interest on the part of relevant agents to investigate and resolve these femicide "he says.
The International Forum on femicide, held in Tegucigalpa on 8 March with the participation of women's organizations, civil society organizations State, concluded that "the problem is not training because it has invested over the last decade in training police officers, investigating officers and judges who have not responded to the problem. On the contrary, have been the same actors responsible for various acts of repression and harassment against women. "
The forum also considered that the murders of women are closely related to the gun culture in the region, since most of the women murdered are executed (more than 60%) with firearms.
The father of a victim of femicide that participated in the investigation said in a dossier submitted during the forum, sent a letter to the Minister of Security, but never received an official response.
"Security Minister boasts that it is just a perception of one, but if he killed a child and was suffering the pain you feel, I think it would care to solve the case," he said.
In this forum, Women's Tribune required the public bodies responsible for protecting the rights of women to assume their responsibility in terms of investigating and prosecuting cases of femicide and report respecting and enforcing the agreements and international conventions signed by the State to address violence against women and not currently being implemented.
also suggested the penalty for officials who fail to comply with the duty to investigate and punish the murders of women.
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