Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic has recorded 28 femicides so far this year, 18 of them intimate and another 10 that do not fall into that category, authorities from the Public Ministry reported this Wednesday.
“Femicide constitutes the most extreme form of violence against women,” said Deputy Attorney General Wilson Camacho, at a training event against gender-based violence sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid).
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Camacho detailed that during the year 2023, 65 femicides were registered in the country, and it decreased to 63 last year.
“Stopping this structural problem is not our sole responsibility, but we must ensure that we fully comply with the part that corresponds to us so that there is no more. This is an institutional responsibility,” added the deputy attorney general.
Camacho and the general coordinator of Aecid, Manuel Alba Cano, highlighted the realization of the international training workshop on research techniques for the crime of femicide and its attempt, focused on providing protocols and concepts on the prosecution and judicialization of gender-based violence and femicide crimes, for the protection of victims and access to Justice.
The workshop is given by the Spanish professor Juan Manuel Cartagena Pastor and is received by prosecutors assigned to the Comprehensive Care units for Gender Violence, Intrafamily Violence and Sexual Crimes and those from the homicide department nationwide.
Alba Cano, for her part, highlighted the importance of making women and girls who are victims of gender-based violence feel protected, in order to counteract the effects of this crime that affects their lives and those of their family members.
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“In 2021, there were 87,000 reports of gender-based violence in the Dominican Republic, the most reported crime, and the number of reports that have been withdrawn is also enormous; that means that women do not feel protected and we as a State have to make a pact for the protection of women and girls,” added the official.
The general coordinator of Aecid, who said that 69% of Dominican women over 15 years of age report having been assaulted throughout their lives, acknowledged the interest and dedication shown by the staff of the Public Ministry in the search for solutions to this problem, which indicated that it has been an incentive to provide the necessary support from the organization he coordinates.
