A case study about deaths of Venezuelan women in Colombia highlights quite worrying information about the types of violence they suffer, the characteristics of the victims and the places where the incidents took place in the country. With the support of the mapping project of the Francisco de Vitoria Institute of International and European Studies, we analyze data on cases of deaths of Venezuelans in Colombian territory from January 2018 until December 2019.
The findings are worrisome: of all cases of deaths of Venezuelan women analyzed, in 57.3% of those it could be concluded that the woman was victim of a femicide, because she showed signs of having suffered gender violence or because she was killed by a (ex) partner/family member.
34.4% were victims of uncategorized murder, as the motive was not clear and had not yet been clarified. 6.6% stood out as crimes of hate and intolerance, because there were obvious indications that the death occurred due to xenophobia towards the woman. 16.4% of Venezuelan women in Colombia died due to accidents, and the remaining 9.8% died from diseases or health problems. In other words, femicide is the main cause of the death of Venezuelan women in Colombia today.
