TEGUCIGALPA, March 7 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Women’s advocacy organizations protested on Friday demanding the State to declare a national emergency state due to the high rate of femicides.
Merly Eguigure, president of the Visitacion Padilla Women’s Movement for Peace, said that they are demanding a national emergency because femicide is an epidemic in Honduras, the Proceso Digital newspaper reported.
To remind prosecutors they are obliged to investigate crimes against women, they marched – in the context of International Women’s Day on March 8 – from Morazan Boulevard to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Eguigure said Government’s lack of political will shows its approval of the fact women continue to be murdered and their cases remain in impunity.
She also demanded the National Institute of Women take an interest in the women’s problems, that more resources be allocated and that judiciary be framed in international treaties to apply justice in cases of violence against women.
The number of femicides in Honduras exceeds 50 crimes this year, and on the first day of 2020 five women were reported dead, according to official data. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA