Women in Puerto Rico are Dying - Women’s Media Center

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As in the United States and elsewhere, femicide is not included in Puerto Rico's penal law. 16Days

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as “the killing of a woman by an intimate partner or the death of a woman as a result of a practice that is harmful to women, regardless of motive” and includes women murdered by partners, ex-partners, or strangers.

“Women are killed for being women…because there’s the impression that men have control over our bodies and lives,” said Mari Mari Narváez, executive director of Kilόmetro Cero. “You’re not going to believe this but the police here still classify some of these [domestic violence] cases as crimes of passion.”

“You’re not going to believe this but the police here still classify some of these [domestic violence] cases as crimes of passion”into domestic violence in the Island, journalist and Ida B. Wells fellow Andrea González-Ramirez found that the intimate partner murder rate in Puerto Rico soared in 2018 to 1.7 per 100,000 women, up from 0.77 per 100,000 in 2017.

On the call for a curriculum, some of Puerto Rico’s six gubernatorial candidates have expressed troubling views or have switched gears after coming under fire.

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It does not exist in Canada either; mostly in Latin America. This needs to change. CallItFemicide.

Isn't it covered under murder laws?

The patriarchy--with its male sense of entitlement to women's respect, admiration, and care, sexual and otherwise--is toxic and all-too deadly to girls and women the world over. This is a human rights issue and should be subject to hate crime legislation.

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