Femicides in Peru

[1] Updated numbers between 2015 and 2021 showed and increase in femicides, with 897 women being killed in Peru during the period.

[3] In 2016 Eduardo Vega, the country's human rights ombudsman, reported that on average, ten women per month were murdered by their partners.

The same study estimated the years of life lost due to premature mortality caused by femicides at 16, 567 between 2011 and 2015.

[7] In 2016, the organisation NiUnaMenos (Spanish: Not one less) was created, protesting against femicides and violence against women in Peru.

In 2020, protests began in Peru over the deaths of Judith Machaca and Noemí Escobar, two women whose bodies were found in a well; a public outcry followed when Santiago Pace, a police officer who confessed to murdering both women and being a member of a sex trafficking ring operating from within the Peruvian police, was released from custody by a local judge.