A staggering more than 900 girls and women are missing and feared dead in Peru since the COVID-19 confinement began, authorities said on Monday ...
LIMA: A staggering more than 900 girls and women are missing and feared dead in Peru since the COVID-19 confinement began, authorities said on Monday .AdvertisementBut COVID-19, which has compounded home confinement combined with job losses and a health crisis, has seen an already scary situation grow worse in just 3.5 months, according to Eliana Revollar, who leads the women's rights office of the National Ombudsman's office.
Women's rights groups and NGOs however say that very often police refuse to investigate domestic violence, make fun of victims, or claim that the missing have left their homes willingly. In January, the case of a university student and activist for women's rights and safety, Solsiret Rodriguez, was in the headlines here - but only when her body was found three years after she went missing.
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