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“The Colombian and Peruvian States are the great absentees when it comes to guaranteeing, protecting and respecting the right to a life free of violence and discrimination for Venezuelan refugee women, who face gender-based violence in all areas of life,” she denounces. Amnesty International in a new report published this week.
Amnesty International’s new report It confirms how Venezuelan refugee women, who represent 50% and 58% of the Venezuelan population in Colombia and Peru, face violence and discrimination in all areas of their lives due to their gender and nationality.
“They are exposed all the time”
A situation that has been getting worse over the years, says Rosario Grados, coordinator of Amnesty International Peru’s “There is no place for abuse” project: “Unlike other processes of human mobility that we have identified in the region, this process particularly places them in a situation of violence that is experienced not only at the time of mobilization, or arrival in the host country, but they are exposed all the time, in migratory transit, and when they arrive in host countries. , especially in the workplace and on the street”.
“We have found a factor that aggravates the situation of vulnerability of these refugee women and that is that they are constantly hypersexualized due to their characteristics,” the expert underlines.
“There is an underreporting”
The specialist also points out that there are no exact figures on how many Venezuelan women suffer gender-based violence since many are afraid to file a complaint because they do not trust the justice of the country that receives them.
“In Colombia, in 2017, 2,430 cases were reported, and by 2018 this figure increased by 61%, and in the Peruvian case, in 2019, 1,384 cases were reported, and by 2021, 1,818. In Peru, there is a growth of the complaint of only 31%, and we consider that it is not because the amount of affectation has been reduced or is little, but because there is an underreporting and they are not receiving [denuncias] despite the fact that the legal framework says that they can file the complaint without any type of documentation”, details Grados.
The NGO calls on the governments of Colombia and Peru to combat stigmatization and discrimination against Venezuelan women, and in this way guarantee them access to a decent life.
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