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Femicide in
Ecuador
By Valentina Gomez and Olivia Montesdeoca
23/10/2023 - Social Studies
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Meaning
Defined as an intentional killing with
a gender-related motivation,
femicide may be driven by
stereotyped gender roles,
discrimination towards women and
girls, unequal power relations
between women and men, or
harmful social norms.
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Cases registered in Ecuador

There are 332 women, girls and tennage
girls murdered in 2022, Geraldine
Guerra, from the Feminist Alliance for
mapping femicide in Ecuador, told EFE.
In the first nine months of 2023, 238
women were murdered for gender
reasons in Ecuador.
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Case of Diana Carolina

Diana Carolina R. was pregnant when she
was murdered. Her partner, Yordis Rafael
L., subdued her with a knife and held her
hostage, holding her neck, for more than an
hour in the streets of downtown Ibarra.
With the sentence imposed on Yordis
Rafael L., on Friday, September 20, 2019,
the trial hearing that began two days before
and which was declared reserved to deal
with an issue of gender violence ended.
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More about the case

WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED?
OF THE CASE RESEARCHED? The right to life of women.
The foreign citizen was The right to be safe and protected.
detained and placed under the The right to have a voice.
orders of the authorities, while
the woman was transferred to
the San Vicente de Paul
hospital, where she died due to
the severity of her injuries.
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Informational Video

https://youtu.be/bQ8P8Q4yNME?si=quD3Pb7Vn_6UhYhg
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Conclusion
Femicide is a fenomenon going around
for a long time now. As a disgusting
type of abuse to women and their
rights, About 45,000 women were
killed by intimate partners or other
family members in 2021. Its a
discrimanation to human rights as a
form of violence and a force to make
women lose their voice. As it is sad to
know this number of people, it adds
up more every year.
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Thanks for
your attention!