Francia Márquez: “3 girls are murdered in Colombia each day”

The Vice President and Minister of Equality of Colombia, Francia Márquez, denounced this Monday that 3 girls are killed each day within the nation and that, up to now this 12 months, 735 girls had been murdered, of which 163 have been reported as femicides.

At the instance of the Global Day for the Removal of Violence in opposition to Girls, Márquez offered the initiative ‘Reside with out concern’, a marketing campaign to boost consciousness and prevention of gender violence, and recalled that one in 10 murders the sufferers are ladies. or youngsters.

Of the ladies murdered in 2024, 57 have been migrant girls, 50 have been African, 22 have been indigenous, 15 have been boulevard dwellers, 8 have been girls from the LGBT neighborhood and six have been intercourse staff.

Alternatively, up to now this 12 months the government have reported 36,996 instances of sexual violence, defined the vp, who regretted that “the Well being gadget (in Colombia) could be very precarious” and there’s no hospital therapy in the entire municipalities of the rustic, so “we need to ask ourselves what number of sufferers are under-registered.

Likewise, Márquez recalled that, as of lately, there are 1,500 lacking girls, together with ladies and young people, of whom “many have for sure been recruited by way of armed teams.”

Change into the tradition of patriarchy

The ‘Reside with out concern’ marketing campaign, which used to be offered at a press convention in Bogotá, is composed of a number of systems that search to handle gender violence in several sectors of society all through 16 days that may start this week to “turn into the tradition of patriarchy.” “.

The vp defined that the marketing campaign “signifies that all the Colombian society works in an articulated method to eliminate the worry that ladies have lately,” and added that the rustic is going through “a disaster and an emergency of systematic and structural violence this is finishing the lives of ladies, ladies and young people”.

“The reaction can not proceed to be remoted, as a State we need to give a reaction articulated with 4 movements: prevention, consideration, investigation and punishment of crimes”, one thing that “comes to all state establishments that experience powers in those phrases”, Marquez added.

Then again, the vp confident that any motion performed by way of the Executive in issues of prevention of violence and coverage of ladies is “inadequate”, which is why she emphasised the want to move additional, whilst asking society as a complete extra acutely aware of this downside.