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the spread of murder of women, addressed this issue. Incomplete murder rates cited in the NGO 2004, 143 in Peru during 2003, and more than 2,000 in A woman holding a sign that reads ‘Together and <strong>United</strong> for Justice’ at the annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women march in Guatemala City on Nov. 25, 2011, which aims to raise public awareness of violence against women. Source: Christian Science Monitor other sources. country to country. In Costa Rica, for example, migrant women are especially targeted. In Nicaragua, where society. Women in these situations yield little power densely populated areas and are poor. 10 Other studies show that the murdered women are nearly all young 11 This underscores one a woman, as ultimately powerless and worthless. spurred the expansion of cheap leisure entertainment and commercial sex, further ruining the image of wages higher than in the interior of Mexico, are not stripped them of their human rights and encouraged them with prostitutes are commonplace in Mexico, explains that “the dual economy of the sex trade 10
women for their place in society. This attitude at fault for the rapes and murders committed against them. 12 promiscuity. most dangerous regions for femicides according to the highest femicide rates come from Latin America Latin America and the Caribbean are among the world’s most dangerous regions for femicides 13 examples of hate crimes against women in the hemisphere. 14 not only for its appalling amount of crimes against law and are entitled without any discrimination remain in impunity, exemption from punishment, 11
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