PBI-Honduras meets with Women’s Movement for Peace ‘Visitación Padilla’ to discuss Purple Alert Law on missing women

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PBI-Honduras has posted:

“We recently met with the Women’s Movement for Peace ‘Visitación Padilla’ (Las Chonas HN). They shared with us about the proposed ‘Purple Alert Law for Disappeared Women’, submitted to the National Congress for approval. This has been worked on by different feminist organizations, including Visitación Padilla, and seeks to prevent the disappearances of girls, adolescents and women in Honduras.

PBI is concerned about the levels of violence against women in the country. We highlight the efforts and commitment of feminist organizations and Honduran women in the search for a world free of violence for them.”

The organization PBI-Honduras met with is named after Visitación Padilla (1882-1960), who is described as “teacher, anti-imperialist and defender of women’s rights” who “denounced the invasion of U.S. Marines and founded the National Culture group, achieving in 1926 the establishment of Mother’s Day.”

The Spanish news agency EFE reports: “The Inter-Institutional Commission for Follow-up on Investigations of Violent Deaths of Women and Femicides in Honduras presented on Wednesday [July 3] a bill for the search for missing women, in a country where around 120 have disappeared this year.”

That article adds: “According to official figures, around 2,100 women disappeared between 2018 and 2023 in Honduras.”

It further explains: “The bill contemplates the creation of a Prosecutor’s Office for Disappeared Persons and a National System for the Search of Disappeared Women, which will be made up of authorities, community organizations, feminists and family members, she [Suyapa Martinez, director of the non-governmental Center for Women’s Studies/CDM] said.”

And Criterio.hn notes: “The Purple Alert Law provides for the creation of a National Commission for the Search for Disappeared Women, made up of women’s organizations and state institutions, as well as a Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Women.”

It adds: “Women’s and feminist organizations hope that the aforementioned law will be a crucial tool to prevent and eradicate gender violence, with special attention to femicides.”

Notably it also mentions: “[Eva Sánchez of the grassroots, feminist organization Las Hormigas], expressed her concern that the Lenca indigenous territory has been hit with the disappearance of people, mainly women and girls. She explained that, in the last two years, at least six cases have been reported, of which to date there is no information.”

We will continue to follow this.


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