Femicide or Feminicidio, Femicidio in Spanish stands for female genocide. A related term is 'Gendercide', a term coined by Mary Anne Warren in her 1985 book, Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection. [1] Some also call it Female Homicide or Gender Crimes. Femicide is a word being used to describe the Murders in Juarez and in Guatemala City, Guatemala. There are people who believe that female genocide is occurring in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico. In both Guatemala and Juarez the murders are not investigated by the local authorities. Most of the women are raped before being murdered and some are mutilated, tortured or even chopped up. In Guatemala City about 20% of the over 500 women murdered in both 2004 and 2005 were killed in pairs, due to an "intimate relationship" according to Claudia Acevedo of Lesbiradas. Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) Article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing... Etymology: Latin homicidium, from homo- human being + caedere- to cut, kill Homicide is the killing of another human being by one or more persons. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Misi n de Nuestra Se ora de Guadalupe Ciudad Ju rez (2000 population 1,142,354) is a city in Chihuahua, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, USA. It is the major port of entry and transportation center of north central Mexico and the fifth largest city... The state of Chihuahua is the largest of the 31 states of Mexico and is located in the northwestern part of the country. ... Lesbiradas is the only public Lesbian rights organization in Guatemala. ...

There is also concern that femicide of Aboriginal women is taking place in Canada. 500 Aboriginal women are reported missing or murdered since 1980, a disproportionate number based on the total population of Aboriginal women. According to sociological studies these women are seen as easy targets because their race places them at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy. Many of the missing women have been dismissed as prostitutes and their disappearances have gone uninvestigated. A major factor in bringing international attention to Canadian women was the murder of Helen Betty Osborne in 1971. Aboriginal peoples in Canada are Indigenous Peoples recognized in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, sections 25 and 35, respectively, as Indians (First Nations), Métis, and Inuit. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... Helen Betty Osborne, or Betty Osborne (1952 - November 13, 1971), was a Cree Aboriginal woman from Norway House reserve who was kidnapped and murdered while walking down Third Street in The Pas, Manitoba on the evening of November 13, 1971. ...

According to the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, [2] between 113m and 200m women are now demographically “missing”. This gender gap is a result of the aborting of girl foetuses based on deliberate sex selection and infanticide in countries where boys are preferred; lack of food and medical attention that goes instead to male family members; so-called “honour killings” and dowry deaths; trafficking of women; and other sorts of domestic violence. It implies that each year between 1.5m and 3m women and girls are lost to gender-based violence. Women between the ages of 15 and 44 are more likely to be maimed or die from violence inflicted one way or another by their menfolk than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined. Poor health care means that 600,000 women are lost each year to childbirth. [3] Honor killing is the practice of males killing their female relatives or spouses when the female relative or spouse is considered to have damaged the family honor through unwarranted sexual activity. ... A dowry (also known as trousseau) is a gift of money or valuables given by the groomss family to that of the bride to permit their marriage. ... Trafficking in human beings includes recruiting, harbouring, obtaining, and transporting persons by use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary acts, such as commercial sexual exploitation (including prostitution) or involuntary labour, i. ... Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate or harm the other. ...

See also

• Deaths in Ciudad Juarez

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a Mexican borderland city across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, USA, has gained world-wide notoriety for more than a decade of serial murder of young women. ...

External links

• Gendercide watch
• Gendercide watch - Female Infanticide
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez (2002) —
  Report by OAS human rights agency.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Graduate Research "Juarez Mothers Fight Femicide Documentary" (March 2005)
• The Economist - No place for your daughters (Nov 24th 2005)
• Rape Survivor Bashing as a bias crime or hate crime

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in Spanish, CIDH) is one of the two bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights. ... The Organization of American States (OAS; OEA in the other three official languages) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA. Its members are the 35 independent nations of the Americas. ...

Videos

• Lourdes Portillo, Señorita Extraviada ISDN 0807861731 2001

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