A very dangerous country for women

Fear. It hurts, Rotas.
In the intimacy in that space that we call home, being a woman is more dangerous in Dominican Republic than in any other place in America or Europe.

A little more than twice as many women die murdered at home in Dominican Republic than the average for the rest of the region (including United States) and five times more than the average in Europe, according to the statistics of the incidence of femicide in the household per million population published in the middle of this year in the International report III– Violence against women in relationships, of the Center Queen Sofia, Spain.

Figures of the Procurator for women officers point 202 women have been killed as women until October of this year. 110 Of those crimes, which are called femicide, female died hanged, apuñaladas, shot, burned, decapitated by men who had mostly ceased u000aprecisely for violent

Since the beginning of November have killed at least nine others, according to the feminist and Director of the NGO collective women and health, VCT Galván.

Last year closed with 210 dead, figures almost identical to those they see today. This year will die more women, sisters, daughters, mothers, friends, heads, classmates work.

"When a woman is more vulnerable or at risk of being violated by these men (aggressors) is when they have that feeling of imminent loss, when is it going to break a link, or it is already broken." "To convince non-recovery increases the danger... most the femicide come this way", explains Luis Vergés, director of the Center for behavioral intervention for men of the Attorney-General Prosecutor of the National District, a center that receives about 30 new cases every week of men who have been beaten, threatened, intimidated women who have u000aquerellado, and whose measures of coercion is assistance to therapy. There are currently about 200 in treatment

Note. Silence. Accomplice.
In a society with closed eyes, stuffy ears and mouth stitched, violence in the home it normalizes. "Nobody is terribly altered, as people see it as another dead." Another one fell. And I think that on the issue of children and adolescents the people don't want to know. The amount of sexual abuse, incest in this country is alarming. "But the people don't want to know".

Glorianna Montás speaks, he is outraged, is covered in armor to withstand everytime it is interviewing a boy or girl beaten, raped, broken by those who were caring for him.

Montas is head of the National Directorate of care for victims, and by more horrors that presence every day is angry to.

She knows that in households where there is gender-based violence is cooked also the recipe for the u000asexual abuse of children. See it over and over time.

Unicef has denounced: around half of all deaths of children or children under five is related to domestic violence or domestic accidents, says bulletin challenges for UNICEF, July 2009.

A. Glorianna Montás hits him that few people will react to the evidence that more and more women die assaulted or killed are really adolescents, girls in relationships with men who could be his parents and even their grandparents.

Scares, says Valerie Julliand, the system of United Nations resident coordinator and resident representative UNDP, that gender-based violence is the leading cause of death of women between 15 and 40 years.

"More than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents". Or in the world, according to UN data, one in three women will be beaten, raped or battered in some other way in the u000aworld.

Hits. Crying. Insults.
Violence mechanism of aging through throughout the Republic over width and is transversal to the classes.

Talk about Peel, desperate cries and punishments both physical as psychological as part of the role of fathers and mothers it is "normal" for a population that has seen and received the same type torture in its infancy.

In 2006, demonstrated by the national survey of household (Enhogar).

"The 83.4 per cent of boys and girls aged 2 to 14 suffering from her (the violence);" more boys than girls, 85.3% and 81.5 per cent respectively.

The most important differences are taken for groups quintílicos of wealth, because 87.4% of boys and girls from the poorest group suffer punishment to 77.8 per cent among the highest".

Corporal punishment is so standard in our culture, that a study on child abuse in neighborhoods of Santo Domingo Norte u000asubmitted by Intec in April this year, 15.7% of the interviewed children regarded as "normal and natural" parents beat their children under the age of 10 years and 19.6% thought the same if they were over the age of 10. In the two groups, a similar proportion did not know what to say.

The culture of the punishment is also started in the audience.

This Tuesday 21, Deputies approved at second reading changed cation of the code for the protection of children and adolescents and, as a measure to deal with the increase of crimes and offences committed by minors, were used to increase the maximum penalty of imprisonment, in the case of boys and girls between 13 and 15 years, it would be 3 to 10 years of imprisonment, and for adolescents between 16 and 18, from 5 to 15 years in prison.

Priority. Money. Action.

The Ministry of women, who was born with Act No. 86-99 for "establishing standards and coordinating the implementation of" u000a"policies, plans and programmes at sectoral, inter-ministerial level and with civil society, aimed at achieving gender equity and the full exercise of citizenship by women", will receive in the fi scal 2012 year the 0.12% of the budget of the nation towards these funds, RD$ 426,449,592, car planning, monitoring and changing social conditions that make it so dangerous to belong to the female in a country that occupies the 7th place in 137 countries in the ranking of the (domestic and non-domestic) General femicide per million of women of the centro Reina Sofia.

The new budget represents an increase of RD$ 43.6 million.

As Special Fund to "accommodate victims of family and domestic violence" the Government has arranged for all 2010 Rd $1,426,764, according to the law on budget 294-11

For Susi Pola, researcher of feminicide and activist for the rights of women, efforts were insufi cient u000aState to combat violence. They are missing, he says, involves public health, that addresses the sexual harassment in schools, to give tools to the Ministry of women and create the Office of equity, gender and development at all levels governmental.

Need to put the money and will where is speech, raised women's groups calling for more attention to a problem that kills more people than dengue fever or cholera.

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