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‘Nowhere is safe’: Colombia confronts alarming surge in femicides
Vice-president joins activists in calling for zero tolerance of ‘machismo’ that has left hundreds of women and girls dead
When authorities pulled the lifeless body of four-year-old María Ángel Molina out of a river in rural Colombia on 13 January, the South American country mourned what was the…
- Joe Parkin Daniels
- The Guardian
Her murderer, Juan Carlos Galvis, also kidnapped María’s sister, and later admitted to authorities that he committed the brutal crimes in order to punish the girls’ mother for…
With five more femicides, murders directly related to the victim’s gender, documented since María’s killing – 18…