Leticia Artiles Visbal

FEMICIDE

Femicides are composed of a set of misogynistic violent acts against women that violate their human rights, threaten their safety, and put their lives at risk. They culminate in the violent death of some women. […] They occur because authorities who are negligent, passive, or colluding with perpetrators exert institutional violence against women by obstructing their access to justice, thereby contributing to impunity. Femicide entails the breakdown of the rule of law because the state is unable to guarantee women’s lives, act lawfully and ensure respect for the law, provide justice, and prevent and eradicate the violence that causes it. Femicide is a crime of the state. Femicides are the ultimate consequence of a social model determined by patriarchal, capitalist, and neocolonialist interests of a minority in power in the global government (Lagarde, 2006).

References
Lagarde, M. (2006). Presentation at the Special Commission to Review and Monitor Investigations Related to Femicides in the Mexican Republic and Linked Justice Provision. Feminicidal Violence in 10 Entities of the Mexican Republic. Presentation to the Chamber of Deputies, lix Legislature, Mexico. Retrieved from www.iidh.ed.cr/BibliotecaWeb/Varios/Documentos/BD_1283266847

Author: L. Artiles Visbal