{"id":64831,"date":"2020-03-07T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64831"},"modified":"2020-03-07T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:49:16","slug":"honduras-women-demand-emergency-for-femicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64831","title":{"rendered":"Honduras: Women demand emergency for femicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.plenglish.com\/images\/2020\/marzo\/06\/mujeres-honduras2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TEGUCIGALPA, March 7 (NNN-Prensa Latina) &#8212; Women&#8217;s advocacy organizations protested on Friday demanding the State to declare a national emergency state due to the high rate of femicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merly Eguigure, president of the Visitacion Padilla Women&#8217;s Movement for Peace, said that they are demanding a national emergency because femicide is an epidemic in Honduras, the Proceso Digital newspaper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To remind prosecutors they are obliged to investigate crimes against women, they marched &#8211; in the context of International Women&#8217;s Day on March 8 &#8211; from Morazan Boulevard to the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eguigure said Government&#8217;s lack of political will shows its approval of the fact women continue to be murdered and their cases remain in impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also demanded the National Institute of Women take an interest in the women&#8217;s problems, that more resources be allocated and that judiciary be framed in international treaties to apply justice in cases of violence against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. &#8212; NNN-PRENSA LATINA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEGUCIGALPA, March 7 (NNN-Prensa Latina) &#8212; Women&#8217;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&#8217;s Movement for Peace, said that they are demanding a national emergency because femicide is an epidemic in Honduras, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":64833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}