Press Release: Declaration by the High Representative Catherine Ashton on behalf of the European Union on Feminicide, Brussels, 30 June 2010

The EU is concerned about the raise of gender based violence in some areas of Latin America. The EU is especially and deeply concerned about the increasing number of homicides against women and girls that take place in some contexts of mass violence and structural discrimination. The EU strongly condemns all kind of gender based violence and the aberrant crime of feminicide and the prevailing culture of impunity for these crimes.

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