Buenos Aires, Argentina: Femicide numbers increasing

Recent research investigations conducted by member of The Observatory on Femicide Civil Society, Marisel Adriana Zambrano, has discovered a large number of women and girls murdered in domestic violence situations in 2011. 282 women and girls died of victims in domestic violence situations in the hands of their boyfriends, spouses, or partners. According to Univision.com, most of the murders occurred in the heavily populate city of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Central-East) where the majority of women where either stabbed or shot to death. However, according to reports the actual number of women and girls deaths could be higher than 282 victims due to the fact that some of the women were not recorded as victims of domestic violence. Read article