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Hundreds of girls, women have disappeared during

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By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA, Aug 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in Peru
during its coronavirus lockdown, a top women's rights official said on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a national
missing persons register to addressing the "alarming" number of disappearances.
Records must be kept to track those who go missing, whether they are found alive or dead and whether they are
victims of sex trafficking, domestic violence or femicide, said Isabel Ortiz, a women's rights commissioner in the
National Ombudsman's office, an independent body that monitors Peru's human rights.
A total of 915 people - 606 girls and 309 women - have been reported missing from the start of lockdown on March
16 through June 30, Ortiz said.
"The figures are really quite alarming," Ortiz told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
"We know the numbers of women and girls who have disappeared, but we don't have detailed information about
how many have been found," she said. "We don't have proper and up-to-date records."
Without the kind of data that a national missing persons register could collect, it often remains unknown what
became of those reported missing and if they were found dead or alive, she said.
Some could be victims of violent crimes like domestic violence or femicide, the gender-related killing of a woman by
a man, Ortiz said.
"In some cases, it is the perpetrator of the crime who has reported a woman as missing," she said.
A national missing persons register would allow cross-referencing of information with other crimes against women to
help find missing people and identify potential suspects, she said.
"We need to have a proper register that would allow us to link the disappearance of women to other crimes like
human trafficking and sexual violence," Ortiz said.
Last week, Peru's women's ministry said 1,200 women and girls had been reported missing during the pandemic - a
higher figure that included the month of July. Facts
The women's ministry said the government was working to eradicate violence against women and had increased
funding this year for gender-based violence prevention programs. show how the violence increase
Countries worldwide have reported increases in domestic violence under coronavirus lockdowns, prompting the recently
United Nations to call for urgent government action.
Latin America and the Caribbean are known for high rates of femicide and violence against women, driven by a
macho culture and social norms that dictate women's roles, Ortiz said. useful for Introduction
"Violence against women exists because of the many patriarchal patterns that exist in our society," she said.
"There are many stereotypes about the role of women that set how their behavior should be, and when these are not
adhered to, violence is used against women," she said.
Before the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of women throughout Latin America, including Peru, were staging
mass street demonstrations demand government action against gender-based violence. (Reporting by Anastasia
Moloney; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson
Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit
http://news.trust.org)

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Materia: Womens rights; Domestic violence; Coronaviruses; Pandemics; Gender; Missing

persons; COVID-19

Lugar: Latin America; Peru

Empresa/organización: Nombre: Thomson Reuters Foundation Inc; NAICS: 813311

Identificador / palabra clave: anastasia; moloney; bogota; reuters; women; girls

Título: Hundreds of girls, women have disappeared during pandemic in Peru

Título de publicación: National Post (Online); Toronto

Año de publicación: 2020

Fecha de publicación: Aug 4, 2020

Sección: PMN Crime

Editorial: Postmedia Network Inc.

Lugar de publicación: Toronto

País de publicación: Canada, Toronto

Materia de publicación: General Interest Periodicals--Canada

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Idioma de la publicación: English

Tipo de documento: News

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