International Desk: 3406 women have gone missing in Peru in four months. Searching for a missing person on the street with a photo of a family member BBC file photo In Peru, 3,406 women went missing in the four months between January and April this year.
The ombudsman office of the country, located in the west-central region of South America, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, said this on Saturday. Barron’s magazine of America has published this news about the news agency AFP.
The office’s report, titled ‘What happened to them?” said that 3,406 women were reported missing in the first four months of 2023. Only 1,902 of them have been found, and 1,504 are still missing. Isabel Ortiz, deputy ombudsman, said the disappearances should be viewed as a situation of imminent danger in Peru.
“The state is not taking enough steps to prevent such incidents in the Andean country of 33 million people,” he said. In 2022, more than 5,380 women, mostly girls and adolescents, were reported missing in the country. This number is 9.7 percent less than in 2021. According to various feminist NGOs, the police and prosecutor’s office do not adequately investigate many cases. They believe that the women ran away voluntarily.
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