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Dominican Republic has world’s sixth highest femicide rate

Dominican Today: "Santo Domingo.- Today is the eighth anniversary of the first commemoration of the International Day against Violence against Women, established by the United Nations in 1999 in honor of Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal, the three Dominican sisters who were assassinated by Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s regime on this date, November 25, in 1960. This date serves to remind us that this year so far over 150 women have been killed, which puts the Dominican Republic in sixth place worldwide for the number of women who die violently as a result of domestic violence. This alarming figure was revealed by Natividad López from the Dominican Ministry of Women."

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