Ecuador: Statistics regarding femicide include 77% attackers use knives, strangulation

eluniverso.com – According to a study of judicial sentences of femicides occurred in 2015, presented by the Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights (Cedhu), 56% of cases in the country occur during night or dawn when little surveillance.

Attacks of the perpetrators occur with the same percentage (56%) inside the houses and 43% of other cases have occurred on streets regularly in unpopulated areas.

Among the forms of death, 77% of attackers use stabbing, strangulation and beatings to murder the victim. 23% use rape before the fact. Likewise, 65% of the victims were 18 to 50 years old, with children in their care. Of the remaining 15% no information is available.

Among its conclusions, the study determines that the legal figure of femicide should be reviewed, including other figures of violence, extreme, besides having a mandatory registry of data of victims and perpetrators, improve research systems, build a system of comprehensive registration Of data and a comprehensive repair program.According to a study of judicial sentences of femicides occurred in 2015, presented by the Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights (Cedhu), 56% of cases in the country occur during night or dawn when little surveillance.

Attacks of the perpetrators occur with the same percentage (56%) inside the houses and 43% of other cases have occurred on streets regularly in unpopulated areas.

Among the forms of death, 77% of attackers use stabbing, strangulation and beatings to murder the victim. 23% use rape before the fact. Likewise, 65% of the victims were 18 to 50 years old, with children in their care. Of the remaining 15% no information is available.

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Among its conclusions, the study determines that the legal figure of femicide should be reviewed, including other figures of violence, extreme, besides having a mandatory registry of data of victims and perpetrators, improve research systems, build a system of comprehensive registration Of data and a comprehensive repair program. Read Article