Las decisiones judiciales frente a casos emblemáticos de femicidio en el Ecuador

Abstract

This academic monograph for graduation purposes, analyzes the conceptions that guide the decisions of the operators or operators of justice in cases of violent deaths of women, because they are women. From the frame of reference of the femicide figure, as the maximum expression of violence against women, with the perspective of gender -vision from women- and with specific elements of the methodology of gender analysis proposed by Alda Facio, in his Book "When gender sounds, changes brings", analyzes the legal phenomenon of femicide of two emblematic cases in the country, in the light of legal instruments of COIP and resolutions of international events of women, on prevention of gender violence , Determining their progress and / or setbacks in the country. The results show progress in the procedures of visibilization and particularization of the cases of femicide, although they need to deepen in political-cultural elements that prevent this type of violence.