Gendercide
Genderzid , also English. Gendercide is a neologism from the English term for sex ( gender ) and the genocide - synonymous with genocide and refers to the systematic and mass killing of members of a specific gender. The systematic killing of women and female fetuses is known as femicide , and the systematic killing of men and male fetuses is called androcide .
Gendercide against women
The most common form of gendercide is femicide . Every year two to three million women are killed worldwide because of their gender. The gender-specific infanticide or selective abortion of female fetuses , which occurs worldwide, especially in cultures and countries that place great value on male offspring, such as the People's Republic of China , India and South Korea , is another example of femicide.
Of Femicide is also spoken in connection with a striking accumulation of sexual and homicides of women in Latin America. Guatemala City , Guatemala and Chihuahua , Mexico are particularly affected . In this context, the systematic failure of criminal prosecution is discussed, since the perpetrators mostly remained unpunished. There is now a special law against femicide in Guatemala, which has so far not had much success.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Warren, Mary Anne: Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1985.
- ↑ Hilarion Petzod, Ilse Orth: Femizid, Genderzid, Genital Mutilation , in: Surur Abdul-Hussain (Ed.): Genderkompetenz in Supervision und Coaching , VS Verlag, second edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-16754-1 , p 238
- ↑ Mara Hvistendahl : The Disappearance of Women. Selective Birth Control and the Consequences . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-28009-9
- ^ Femicide and Gender Violence in Mexico
- ^ A task for society as a whole , Latin America News June 2011