El femicidio como delito autónomo tipificado en el Código Orgánico Integral Penal

Abstract

Femicide as a separate offense under the Criminal Code of Integral, approved by the National Assembly, which took effect on August 10 of the year two thousand and fourteen; seeks to ensure, expeditiously defend the rights of victims, the fundamental and inherent right to humans such as the right to life, physical and psychological integrity of women; providing legal security, protection and prevention measures in addition to full reparation to the victim's family; also contributes to ensuring human rights of women and claiming a significant step towards reaching gender equality, equity; so, in this way it contributes to reduce the rates of gender-based violence that is not only a problem of national type because it affects all countries of the world regardless of race, political ideology, class, culture or a religion. The consummation of this crime, is the extreme demonstration of violence against women nevertheless remains a little known fact. It is the end point of a circle of both psychological violence and physical in which he has lived women, caused by machismo, unequal power relations between genders, low self-subordination, possession, frustration and other factors that also come from society where it has established a marked distinction of roles for both men and women.