In 2022 there was an average of 20 femicides per month, accumulating a total of 242 gender-based murders of women throughout the year. The panorama is not very hopeful on the eve of Women’s Day, since 2023 adds around 40 femicides in just two monthswith an average of about 22 crimes per month.
The reference data for the last year come from the Femicide Observatory of the National Ombudsman’s Office (OFPDPN); while the reports corresponding to 2023 are from the Mumalá Observatory “Women, Dissidence, Rights” and the gender violence observatory “Now what if they see us”.
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In two years, around 260 femicides were committed, of which 242 occurred in 2022 (according to the OFDPN). In 2023, the accumulated numbers in the first two months of the year vary slightly. The Mumalá observatory maintains that there were 39 femicides with an average of one every 36 hours; while Now that they see us, he detailed that this number rose to 44, with a crime every 32 hours.
Partners and ex-partners were the main culprits
In 2022, it will be extended by a 83% of the cases the existence of a pre-existing relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. Of that percentage, 101 saw a relationship with the women at the time of the events, while 44 had already cut the link. “In most of the cases they were a relationship with a partner, ex-partner or affective sex,” the report details.
Of the total number of murders, only 11% of femicides were committed by strangers and in 6% of the cases the link between the parties involved could not be determined.
This trend is maintained in 2013, being that 65% of crimes are committed by the partner or ex-partner of the victim. According to Now that they see us, 50% of the culprits are people with whom they have a loving relationship at the time of the event, while in 13.6% of the cases the relationship had already ended.
Likewise, according to said observatory, 13.6% of women were killed by strangerswhile Mumalá explained that this total corresponded to 6%.
Homes of the victims: the most common places of femicide
According to the OFDPN, a piece of information that “has been sustained over the years is the location where the femicides were committed.” In this sense, both in 2022 and 2023, the place where most women were murdered was their homes. While in 2022 the majority shared a home with the perpetrator, this trend was reversed in 2023.
In this regard, last year 65% of the murders (158 cases) occurred in the woman’s home. Of that total, almost 52% (82 cases) took place in a shared home with their murdererwhile 48% (76 cases) was the private home of the woman.
In third place is the public road, accumulating a total of 30 murders (12.39%). Prisons and hotels/motels are listed at the bottom of the list, with only one case each (0.4%).
In 2023, like the previous year, Most of the femicides occurred in the victim’s home.. According to Mumalá, this figure corresponds to 66% of the cases (around 26 murders). For Now that they see us, this number increases to 68% (almost 30 murders) and, unlike in 2022, only 11.4% of women shared their home with their killer (5 murders).
Although for Mumalá the number of femicides on public roads remains at 12%, for Now that they see us this number rose to 18.2%.
Bladed weapons: the most used method to commit the crime
Another characteristic shared in 2022 and 2023 was the method of carrying out the crime, being the use of bladed weapons is preferredfollowed by firearms.
“The stabbing, use of firearms and beatings were the methods most used to commit femicides,” details the OFDPN regarding the previous year. In that sense, 66 women (27%) were stabbed60 shot (24%) and 41 hit (16.9%).
According to Mumalá, the preferred type of weapon in 2023 was white, corresponding to 12 cases (31%). Like last year, in second place are deaths caused by firearms, accumulating 9 cases (25%). Third place is a tie between choking and beating, both with 6 kills (16%).
Some women had filed complaints against his murderer
Although it is a reduction, both this year and last year there was a group of women who had made a complaint for gender violence prior to the fact. “More than 19% of the victims made at least one complaint of gender violence prior to the femicide, this means 4% more than in 2021,” details the OFDPN with respect to 2022.
By 2023, Mumalá detailed that 13% had denounced the aggressor, of which have a contact restriction order and 25% had a panic button. According to Now that they see us, almost 16% had made at least one complaint and 9% had protective measures.
In two years, almost 230 children and adolescents lost their mothers
One of the data analyzed by the observatories was the collateral victims of the crime, specifically the children of the murdered women. In the interim period from 2022 to February 28, 2023, around 230 children lost their mother.
In 2022, it was found that 200 children and adolescents were left without a mother due to femicides. In 6 of the cases, the women were pregnant at the time of death. Only 34% of femicides did not have collateral victims.
in 2023, an average of 25 children lost their mother. According to Mumalá, there were 26 collateral victims, but now that they see us, that number drops to 24.
Femicide suicides: what they are and how many were committed in 2022 and 2023
As of 2022, the OFDPN began to register the “femicide suicides”. According to the Ombudsman’s Office, these deaths occur “when it is verified that women take their lives as a result of the systematic abuse and gender violence they suffered.”
“This observatory was the first registry of feminicides in Argentina to include and develop the concept of feminicide suicides and insist on making them visible“, detailed the OFDPN report.
About, in 2022 there were 14 femicide suicides. According to Mumalá, so far in 2023 only one woman has taken her own life as a consequence of gender violence.
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