or Feminicidio, Femicidio in or Gender Crimes . Femicide is a word being used to describe the Murders in Juarez and in Guatemala City, Guatemala . There are people who believe that female genocide is occurring in Ciudad Juarez , Chihuahua Mexico . In both Guatemala and Juarez the murders are not investigated by the local authorities. Most of the women are raped before being murdered and some are mutilated, tortured or even chopped up. In Guatemala City about 20% of the over 500 women murdered in both 2004 and 2005 were killed in pairs, due to an "intimate relationship" according to Claudia Acevedo of Lesbiradas .
There is also concern that femicide of Aboriginal women is taking place in Canada . 500 Aboriginal women are reported missing or murdered since 1980, a disproportionate number based on the total population of Aboriginal women. According to sociological studies these women are seen as easy targets because their race places them at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy. Many of the missing women have been dismissed as Prostitutes and their disappearances have gone uninvestigated. A major factor in bringing international attention to Canadian women was the murder of Helen Betty Osborne in 1971.
According to the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, between 113m and 200m women are now demographically “missing”. This gender gap is a result of the aborting of girl foetuses based on deliberate sex selection and infanticide in countries where boys are preferred; lack of food and medical attention that goes instead to male family members; so-called “ Honour Killing s” and Dowry deaths; Trafficking Of Women ; and other sorts of Domestic Violence . It implies that each year between 1.5m and 3m women and girls are lost to gender-based violence. Women between the ages of 15 and 44 are more likely to be maimed or die from violence inflicted one way or another by their menfolk than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined. Poor health care means that 600,000 women are lost each year to childbirth. [http://www.economist.com/World/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5220396
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