Iris Publishers-Open access Journal of Forensic Science & Medicine | Gender Violence, Suicide and Criminal Law

Authored by Yaíma Águila Gutiérrez

Pan-American Health Organization (PHO) has declared, about gender violence, that it is a problem which chiefly affects women. It has declared that at the end of 1990, gender violence had caused more death and incapacity to women from 15 to 44 years old than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war [1]. At the two last years of XX century, in Latin America, one of three sexual abuse cases were denounced and 80% were children and/or teenagers. About 30% y 50% of rape victims were younger than 15 years old and around 20% were younger than 10 years old, according to studies in Chile, Peru, Malaysia and United States of America Artiles [2]. At the same way, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2012[3] expresses that violence against women and girls is a pandemic problem [4]. Also said that violence acts contribute towards the 15% of disease world charge [5]. Likewise, the Found of United Nations for Childhood, Science and Education (UNICEF) has been presenting reports for several years, according to gender violence as a problem that affects specially children Artiles [2]. Obviously, gender violence has become a main problem for humanity and no country is apart from that. It affects millions of people, mainly women and girls, but nobody is exempt of it [6].
Gender violence can be manifest from any social scene and anyone can cause or suffer it. There are two groups: macro or visible gender violence and non-visible gender violence, those can be classified as well in gender violence between people with the same gender or between different gender. The most common types of gender violence are physical, sexual, economic and psychological violence. Harmful effects of gender violence cause health damage and deterioration of relationships, reaching to commit a crime [7]. It is frequent to commit it in couple relationships [8-9].

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