Significance: Uruguay, a comparatively peaceful country by regional standards, has been convulsed by a surge in femicides this year. This compelled President Tabaré Vázquez to declare in his state-of-the-nation address in March that one of his top priorities was pushing through the country’s bicameral congress a bill categorising the crime in the penal code and another on gender violence. There have been 19 femicides in the first half of the year in Uruguay, a record total. At this rate, by the end of 2017 the number of femicides could nearly double the figure for the whole of last year, which was 22.
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