What is the role of the
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• Committee for the Monitoring of
Women's Rights of Chulucanas, Piura.
• Network of Promoters "Working for a
Future Without Violence" of
Independencia.
• Network of Promoters Against
Violence (26260) and the Law on
Violence "Rebuilding Hearts" of
Comas.
• Network of Promoters Against
Family and Sexual Violence of
Carabayllo.
• Network of Health Promoters of
Independence.
• Independence Legal Advisors
• Red de salud de Collique de Comas.
• ACEPRODES – Asociación Central
de
article 107 of the Penal Code was
Promotoras de Salud de Comas.
enacted, establishing a sentence of
• APROTEA – Asociación de
Promotoras de
Teatro en Acción de Comas.
• Mesa de Concertación de Género de
Comas.
Peruvian State in the
face of femicide?
It is the responsibility of the
Peruvian State to guarantee
women's rights, including the
right to equality and to live free
from violence. The Law on
Protection against Family
Equal Opportunities between
Women and Men (28983)
establish the obligation of the
State to combat all forms of
violence against women. The
State must take measures to
prevent violence against women
and to provide timely and
effective care to victims. It must
also punish cases of femicide
based on the law. On 27
December 2011, a law amending
not less than fifteen years for
cases of femicide. And on July
18, 2013, an amendment to the
law was published, in which
penalties of up to life
imprisonment are considered

¿Qué es el feminicidio?
Femicide is the murder of
women that originates from the
relations of domination and
control exercised by men
towards women, considering
them as objects of their property
and not as subjects of rights.
Femicide is based on machismo
and is the product of the violence
suffered by women in all areas
(social, work and family). In
most cases, the femicide is – or
has been – a man in the victim's
intimate environment (for
example, his partner or ex-
partner) who has been repeatedly
abusing the woman. Femicide is
the final outcome of situations of
violence against women, in
which there have previously been
complaints, threats and even
previous assassination attempts.
What can we do to
prevent femicide?
Femicide can and should be
prevented. We must all commit
ourselves to the fight against violence
against women and we can:
- Report the cases of violence that are
around us, whether physical,
psychological or sexual.
- Listen to and support women who
live in situations of violence, directing
them to the State services that receive
their complaints (Police Stations
– PNP, Public Prosecutor's Office) or
provide accompaniment (Women's
Emergency Center, health facilities) -
Believe in what the woman says. Do
not judge victims of violence, let
alone justify aggression - Build more
egalitarian relationships between men
and women based on mutual respect.
- Promote proposals for the effective
protection of women victims of
violence and effective punishment for
the aggressor.
The fight against
femicide is everyone's
business
Femicide Figures (2013): • In Peru,
119 femicides and 136 cases of
attempted femicide were registered. •
58% (148) of men who committed
femicide and attempted femicide are
fugitives or free, and in no case was a
sentence registered against them,
only 93 femicides are in prison. • The
aggressors are mostly adults between
the ages of 26 and 35; They are
followed by men whose ages
fluctuate between 36 and 45 years
old; and in third place, young people
between 18 and 25 years old. • In
53% of cases (134) the aggressor was
the partner, in 25% (63) the act was
committed by the ex-partner, and in a
smaller percentage by the family
member or some other person. • The
reasons that led to these attacks were
jealousy (115 cases), because the
woman decided to separate (75) or
because she refused to be her partner
(28). • In the majority and in both
situations of violence, the aggressors
tried or killed the woman by beating,
and a smaller proportion used a knife
or suffocated her.