Book on violence against girls is presented at the UDA
The December 8 at the Universidad del Azuay Professor Amelia Viteri presented her book "Patterns of Violence against Girls in Ecuador", based on a research that analyzes the perceptions of this violence in five provinces of the Ecuadorian highlands.
The author commented that the book seeks to identify some dominant cultural patterns that contribute to family and community violence in the indigenous communities of the Central Sierra.
Martha Cobos, Academic Vice Chancellor of the UDA, said that having data at the national level, we will understand our situation, "since one of the great difficulties in this work on violence has been the fact that the violence varies according to the places where it manifests. "
The book indicates that girls are 25 times more likely to suffer sexual violence than boys and that the protagonists of cases of extreme sexual violence are still family or friends, the vast majority.
The author - who is a professor and researcher at the San Francisco University of Quito - stressed that changing this reality "is not in the hands of the government alone, only the Assembly, only the Academy; it's in everyone's hands. "
