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Central America:1,500 Women Killed this Year
SAN SALVADOR - Central America is
the region where violence against women is
most frequent: more than 1,500 women were
murdered this year, reported many
international organizations.
More than 511 Salvadoran women have been
murdered in 2009, while there have been
registered 5,000 cases of intra-family
violence from January to September this
year, said the President Mauricio Funes.
On the other hand, 34 Costa Rican women have
died because of the gender-based violence,
while there have been more than 500 crimes
of that kind in Guatemala.
The United Nations launched on Wednesday a
Latin American campaign to fight against
that kind of aggressions, in the
International Day Against Violence Against
Women.
Women organizations demonstrated also in El
Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama against
gender-based violence.
President of El Salvador promised to fight
against murder of women, sexual abuse and
inequalities in that country.
He also said that his policy remarks on that
subject will be focuses on the slogan
"zero-tolerance toward violations of women
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