Nine hundred and fifteen women, 70% of whom are minors, disappeared in Peru between March 16 and June 30, during the three and a half months of confinement because of the pandemic, figures in sharp rise, announced Monday the institution " The Defender of the People ”.
Before confinement, there were five disappearances per day on average, but this figure rose to eight over this period. “We need to know what happened with them,” People's Advocate Walter Gutiérrez told RPP radio.
How many are still missing?
“The cases of little girls and adolescent girls represent 70% of the total number of missing women,” he added. While some subsequently reappeared, due to the lack of a national police register, it is not known how many are still missing. "There is resistance from the police to investigate these cases," deplores Eliana Revollar, the head of women's rights within the institution. We demand that the national register of missing persons be put in place. ”
In 2019, 166 feminicides took place in Peru, the tenth part of which was initially cataloged as a disappearance.
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Peru is the second country in the region with the most cases of the new coronavirus (more than 384,000), behind Brazil, and the third in number of deaths (more than 18,000), after the South American giant and Mexico.
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