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Karla Pesantes appears on a main road with their hands tied in the back and strangled.

are not cases of some crime novel, but the prosecution case files collected between 2005 and 2007. As such, there are 60 cases of violent deaths of women of various ages, socioeconomic status and occupation. These deaths were grouped into the figure of femicide.

In essence, femicide death involves extreme violence of a victim by her womanhood.

They generally have suffered domestic abuse at home and not have dared to denounce their aggressors. If they had, their deaths might have been avoided. The term also includes the murders carried out by men motivated by a misguided sense of ownership of women and deaths involving sexual abuse and rape.


He describes the first investigation of femicide held in Ecuador, in charge of the Transition Commission to the Council of Women and Gender Equality, and Cepam. Both groups sift through hundreds of court records. "There were cases where the coroner or the prosecutor did not even bother the trouble to specify in the veneer if it was a woman, "says Ana Carcedo, master Rican responsible for advising the Ecuadorian professionals.


According to the study, femicide is a trend visible in the 90's when the deaths of thousands of women in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) attracted international attention on the risk because they live their gender.


"Criminalizing the crime in the Ecuadorian Code would focus attention to the fact and do not rule out the death of a woman as a simple murder when they have different scenarios and motivations, would give us the cultural push to investigate thoroughly, "said Carcedo.

In Costa Rica, following the work of Carcedo achieved femicide include a crime punishable with 35 years' imprisonment. Guatemala, Mexico and Chile have also recently this criminal offense.


Living battered
According to United Nations Organization, every 18 seconds a woman is battered in the world, and in Ecuador, data recorded Transition Council that four of 10 women living in a situation of domestic abuse, regardless of social or economic status. "We must recognize that violence and death to women does not distinguish whether she is rich or poor. It is a macho society problem, "says the lawyer Marena Briones.


research leaked in 170 cases of death in women in Guayaquil, Esmeraldas, Cuenca and Portoviejo. There were 80 homicides, of which 62 correspond to femicide, over 77 percent of the total.


Ecuador is on the average Latin American statistics femicide with an annual rate of five deaths from this crime in every 100 thousand women. According Carcedo does not guarantee that data are not duplicated, Honduras and Guatemala in 2000 had a similar rate to Ecuador. Today, both nations are committed 93 murders of women per year for every 100 000 women.


Although Ecuador is not yet at the forefront of these statistics, Patricia Reyes, coordinator of Cepam, states that the concern is that most women are femicide murders. "This requires us to review the way these crimes are investigated by the state. Often a woman is dying in the house and placed on file who died from falling off the stairs, not an inquiry is made, it is not related to the history of abuse he suffered, "he emphasizes.


Sleeping with the enemy
Research confirms that relationships are the first stage high-risk women. The cry, the slap or the initial shock occur at home, in coexistence. What happened to Johanna 26, common-law for five years, suffered abuse by three until one day it dawned stabbed by jealous, says the judicial part.


The study partners and former partners were responsible for 76 percent of these murders of women, taking place under the logic of immediate control and jealousy, they tried to prevent violence or wanting to be separated are killed.


A new stage of femicide is in gangs or drug trafficking organizations. In some cases, the leader of the band assumes that the woman belongs to him so his life can be discarded. In others, it is treated as an object to collect a debt or take revenge against an enemy.


Whatever the scenario, the findings of this first report show that gender discrimination is no stranger in Ecuador and that femicide is the last link in the chain of violence. The solution is to attack women's insecurity, a problem that the State must investigate murders and rescuing women living in domestic abuse.