{"id":56292,"date":"2026-05-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinoamerica21.com\/?p=56292"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:59:32","slug":"peru-blind-to-femicide-the-urgency-of-a-unified-data-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinoamerica21.com\/en\/peru-blind-to-femicide-the-urgency-of-a-unified-data-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru blind to femicide: The urgency of a unified data system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Peruvian state reported contradictory figures on feminicide for January 2026. On the one hand, it reported four cases according to the Ombudsman\u2019s Office, and on the other, seven according to the Warmi \u00d1an Program (formerly Aurora). This discrepancy in the monthly figures is not a minor error. It is the symptom of an institutional fragmentation that persists and costs lives. In Latin America, the disarticulation of data and the weak interoperability of systems on gender-based violence are often the norm. To protect women, each country must implement a Unified Information System on Femicide Violence (SUIF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Peru, this initiative should be framed within the National Multisectoral Human Rights Policy (PNMDH), since one of its guidelines expressly establishes the need to consolidate information management. The central problem addressed by this policy is structural inequality and discrimination in the exercise of human rights. Within this framework, the SUIF consists of putting that mandate into practice for women in situations of extreme risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The diagnosis: figures that do not speak to each other<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lack of coordination in records prevents visualizing the critical path of danger faced by victims. In the first half of 2025, the Peruvian Ombudsman\u2019s Office recorded 78 femicides\u201411.4% more than the previous year\u2014while the INEI, using an integrated methodology, produced different figures for the same period. The Warmi \u00d1an Program, for its part, closed all of 2025 with 133 confirmed cases. Three institutions, three registries, one single reality that the State fails to see clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving toward a unified truth is a necessary condition to meet one of the objectives of the PNMDH. This goal seeks to reduce the population\u2019s vulnerability index\u2014which combines 23 indicators of access to services, education, and women\u2019s living conditions\u2014from 37.60 in 2022 to 19.48 in 2040. Achieving this is only possible if the State starts from reliable and shared data. Without interoperability, that horizon will be neither measurable nor attainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regional references: Mexico and Argentina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is not exclusive to Peru, and Latin America offers valuable lessons of success. Mexico has the National Data and Information Bank on Cases of Violence against Women (BANAVIM). This system creates unique electronic case files for victims across its 32 federal entities, thus preventing revictimization. By centralizing data, authorities can detect high-risk areas and provide continuous follow-up for each prosecuted case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentina, for its part, has advanced with the Unit for the Registration, Systematization, and Monitoring of Femicides (UFEM), attached to the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office. This body compiles information nationwide to guide prevention policies and inform judicial decisions. Both models demonstrate that centralizing data enables far more effective criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The danger of information silos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, information in Peru is trapped in silos that do not communicate systematically. Entities such as the National Police, the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, and the Judiciary manage isolated databases. The main problem is not the total absence of data, but its deep operational disarticulation. A complaint filed at a Women\u2019s Emergency Center does not always trigger an immediate alert at the local police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PNMDH requires the State to act as an articulated body to guarantee effective access to justice. Within this framework, the SUIF would allow each administrative record to serve as a preventive input to save women\u2019s lives. But without mandatory interoperability, bureaucracy becomes an unwitting accomplice to criminal impunity, beyond the goodwill shown by officials in each public institution involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The link between disappearance and femicide is the most critical aspect of this institutional disconnect. Between January and July 2025, more than 12,000 people were reported missing in the country. Alarmingly, 28 of the women murdered that year had previously been reported to authorities as missing. The State had the opportunity to intervene, but the search alert did not reach operators in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between technology and operational reality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, technology is not a magic solution without operational capacity and adequate infrastructure across the territory. Chile enacted Law 21,378 for the telematic monitoring of aggressors through electronic ankle bracelets. Although it has yielded positive results in urban areas, it has faced challenges in regions with digital connectivity gaps. Therefore, in Peru, the SUIF must be designed with differentiated solutions: the challenge in Lima is not the same as in a rural Amazonian area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombia, for its part, has strengthened its Line 155, integrated with the police and the prosecutor\u2019s office to expedite emergency response. This system ensures that each report is immediately forwarded to the corresponding entity, creating a chain of custody. The Peruvian SUIF seeks to replicate this agility, ensuring full follow-up of each case under an intersectional approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Efficient investment to save lives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

System modernization is often interrupted by lack of budget, but inaction is far more costly. According to World Bank estimates, the costs of gender-based violence amount to 3.7% of Peru\u2019s GDP. Meanwhile, the estimated investment to implement the SUIF ranges between five and ten million dollars, a tiny fraction of that social cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistical invisibility is a form of impunity that perpetuates the cycle of pain. The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (MINJUSDH), as the governing body of the PNMDH, has the mandate to lead the integration of human rights information systems, in coordination with the Ministry of Women, the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, and the National Police. By treating violence as a priority issue of access to justice, the State assumes its responsibility to act with the due diligence that victims deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building this system does not require inventing anything new. Institutions simply need to share the information they already possess in an interoperable manner and with guaranteed data quality. Basic coordination is not a utopia; it is an obligation. The memory of those we have lost demands that states cease to be a sum of isolated institutions and become the unified shield that women need to live with dignity and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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