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23-09-2019

Por: Orianna Gutiérrez Parra

Mujeres al límite en inglés – nota de prensa

The human rights crisis in Venezuela has increased the gender gap in an alarming manner,
placing women and girls in a grave situation of vulnerability #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

The @EnEquivalencia coalition with their “Mujeres al Limite 2019” report demands
authorities to make an immediate effort to implement plans and public policies that address
the negative impact created by the complex humanitarian emergency
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Hilo

The absence of effective public policies on sexual and reproductive health, the collapse of
the public health system, and the lack of contraceptive methods, has generated a serious
setback in the rights and sexual and reproductive health of Venezuelan women
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Worryingly contributing to the increase in maternal mortality, adolescent pregnancy,

sexually transmitted infections, and unsafe abortions associated with unwanted pregnancies
#VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Fin

“Mujeres al Limite 2019” reports that between 2012 and 2016, there has been a steady
increase in maternal deaths in the country, increasing by 66% according to official figures
#VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

“Mujeres al Limite 2019” brings reports from health professionals who are realizing that
patients’ pregnancies are complicating with infections, high blood pressure or hemorrhages,
and that medical centers don´t have supplies to treat them #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Hilo

In four hospital institutions it was found that for every 4 deliveries there was an abortion
during the period between August-December 2018 #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5
A total of 2,246 abortions were recorded, which represents 15 daily abortions on average.
Experts consulted confirm that this is due to nutritional deficiencies and lack of prenatal
care in the case of spontaneous abortions and in the case of induced abortions

It is associated with an absence of family planning policies and a severe shortage of

contraceptive methods https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Fin

“Mujeres al Límite” indicates that in 2018 21% of pregnant women in parishes in 7

Venezuelan states had acute malnutrition, of which 24% were adolescents under the age of
19 #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

The precarious socio-economic conditions in which the majority of the Venezuelan

population finds themselves in determines their access to food, including pregnant women
and it has generated serious consequences for them and their unborn children
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

In matters of sexual and reproductive health, it is worrying that surgical sterilizations are
offered to women as the only solution to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies,
most of them being promoted by officials in several regions of the country
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

“Mujeres al Límite” accounts for the serious shortage of contraceptive methods in

Venezuela, which is around 90%, and that the few available are unaffordable for a
population that earns the lowest minimum wages in the region – 2.5 dollars a month
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Due to the absence of responses and the refusal of authorities to recognize the existence of
the complex humanitarian emergency, many Venezuelan women have decided to cross the
border into Colombia or Brazil to give birth and receive quality medical care
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Between April and June 2018, 8,209 pregnant Venezuelan women were registered in
Colombia, 6,304 (76.7%) of them without prenatal control, and 10% of births in the border
state of Roraima between January 2017 and March 2018 correspond to Venezuelan women
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

There is a growing trend in female-headed households and a clear sexual division of labor
that limits, excludes, and expels women from the public and formal labor market that
maintains the gap in matters of care between women and men #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5
For Venezuelan women, their responsibility for care has diminished their opportunities to
enter the labor market and achieve economic autonomy #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Violence against women persists and although the number of cases received annually by
the bodies receiving complaints, the defendants, and those who go to trial is unknown
#VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

There were 448 femicides in Venezuela in 2018, an increase of 10.89% in the rate of
femicide with respect to 2017. 35 of every 100 femicides occurred to women whose age
ranged between 25 and 45 years, and 27 out of 100 occurred to women under 25
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

The precariousness of living conditions in Venezuela has exacerbated a culture that

encourages the sexual exploitation of women and girls #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

In 2018, sexual exploitation was reported by indigenous girls and adolescents of the Wayuú
ethnic group in the Zulia state, by girls and adolescents in La Guaira, Vargas state
#VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

“Mujeres al Límite” cites the identification of a trafficking network of Venezuelan women,

adolescents and girls operating in the Táchira state in the border region with the Norte de
Santander department of Colombia #VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Indigenous women continue to be marginalized and subject to State neglect

#VenezuelanWomenAtRisk https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

Violence against indigenous women and girls associated with mining activity is focused on
the construction of villages where bars and prostitution houses controlled by the mining
workers, who end up doing business for sexual exploitation purposes https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5

“Mujeres al Límite” indicates the urgent necessity to fully open the doors for humanitarian
space and guarantee life with dignity for women and girls in Venezuela, generating
effective policies where their rights are not seen as first world problems
https://bit.ly/2mkxaz5