Yenchi: a Venezuelan tool to georeference gender violence

See original in spanish in http://efectococuyo.com/principales/yenchi-una-herramienta-venezolana-para-georreferenciar-la-violencia-de-genero/ by MARIA VICTORIA FERMIN KANCEV | @VICKYFERMIN

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Faced with the absence of systematized data on gender violence in Venezuela, Yenchi was born, it is a tool to register and georeference the crimes of this nature inside and outside the territory, it was created by the women's organization "Activists for Free Software" ( XSL activists).

The platform, whose name means “our daughter” in the Pemón language, was born in 2014 after the civil association warned about the increase in cybercrime and Internet harassment against women. This 2019 was relaunched including the categorization of other crimes contemplated in the "Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence", legal instrument in force since 2007.

The regulations repealed the "Law on Violence against Women", and in 2014 underwent a reform to include the crime of femicide, which is punishable by sentences of between 20 and 25 years in prison.

Nerissa Aguilera, a member of ActivistasXSL, explained that this time the team was joined by experts in the law and other women rights defenders. The group forms a committee in charge of verifying the reports that users introduce to the website, which is currently in the testing phase.

She added that they also rely on information about these crimes that are published in the social networks of institutions such as the Public Ministry and the Corps of Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations (Cicpc). The main objective, however, is to reach cases that are not reviewed in the media and for this they want to rely on women leaders in communities and community councils.

In search of alliances

The activist added that, to date, they have fruitful conversations with State entities and several NGOs that work in the defense of women's rights to establish alliances to feed and validate the reports.

In Venezuela organizations such as "Amnesty International" and the "Observatory of Armed Violence with a Gender Approach" (Ovaceg) have warned about the rise of such crimes. On August 2, the "Guayanés's Gender Violence Observatory" released 445 women in the Bolivar state in the last six years, a figure that exceeds the number of this crime throughout Spain during the same period.

While last July the deputy of the National Assembly, Manuela Bolívar, warned that at least 41 Venezuelans have been killed abroad, after being admitted to trafficking networks.

Feminization of technology

Aguilera said that the NGO she represents has been articulated since 2006 “with the purpose of moving towards a possible feminization of those who work with technology, since it is a completely masculinized environment”. Yenchi is one of the proposals in the area of development of the organization.

"All of our initiatives are related to the fact of empowering women in information and communication technologies, but not just any technology but free technologies," she said.

The former National Women's Defender, María Hernández Royett, presented Yenchi during the Seminar "Trafficking in people beyond our borders", held at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) on July 30.

She hopes that, in the short term, the tool will include information on the organizations that are receiving complaints in the territory and on whether the reports of the victims were taken care of.

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