Alert in Honduras due to wave of femicides

The murders of 14 women in the last eight days have put Honduras on alert in the face of the worrying increase in femicides that this latest wave of crimes against women has revealed.

The office of the National Human Rights Commissioner (CONADEH) has asked the public security authorities and the Prosecutor’s Office to speed up the investigation processes to clarify these events that mourn the Central American country.

The multiple homicides have been registered in different regions of the country with the capital Tegucigalpa as the epicenter of the violent events, followed by regions such as Catamas and Olancho.

Last Sunday, the double homicide of the sisters Maryuri Waleska López Maldonado, 20, and Leticia Mabel López Maldonado, 24, in Olancho, was reported.

The CONADEH office reports that so far this 2022, the Institute of Legal Medicine has recognized the bodies of 240 women murdered in different circumstances, ranging from domestic violence as well as other forms of crime in a country with high crime indicators .

the rotary The Herald of Honduras published that the Observatory of Violence of the Autonomous University of Honduras (OV-UNAH) has documented between January and July of this year 185 violent deaths of women, the rest of this year still remains to be verified.

“There have also been more than 2,300 violent homicidal deaths, which makes people feel fearful and defenseless,” Migdonia Ayestas, from OV-UNAH, told the Honduran newspaper.

In Honduras, as in the rest of the countries in the region –according to human rights defenders- impunity prevails in homicides.

The count of violence in that Central American country where criminal gangs such as the MS-13 gang operate, but also other organized crime structures, has reached some 7,450 homicides of women from 2002 to date, which would indicate parameters of an average of 1 woman killed every day.

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