Honduras recorded 7,746 violent deaths of women between 2005 and 2024

Honduras has the highest rate in Central America and is in fifth place in the world in terms of violence against women.

Tegucigalpa.- Honduras is facing a serious crisis of violence against women with 7,746 violent deaths from 2005 to 2024, being the country with the highest rate in Central America and fifth in the world, reported this Tuesday the director of the Violence Observatory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (Unah), Migdonia Ayestas.

"Violence and criminality affect women; many of these women lose their lives based on those power relations. 7,746 are the violent deaths that have been recorded in the country from the year 2005 to the year 2024," said Ayestas.

Ayestas, who today presented a report from the Unah Violence Observatory, indicated that in 2024 Honduras "closed with 240 deaths of women, resulting in a rate of 4.7 per 100,000 female inhabitants" and in what has transpired in 2025, 233 violent deaths of women and femicides have been recorded. According to the Violence Observatory, in 2024 a woman lost her life violently every 36 hours. Currently, it's one every 32 hours.

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"The serious thing about this is that of these 240 violent deaths, 169 are categorized as femicides" and many of them had "signs of cruelty" and a "degree of cruelty that goes beyond the injuries"; in addition, the aggressors, in that cruelty, "use weapons and other means to cause disfigurement on their faces, what we call dismemberment or cruelty", emphasized Ayestas. He also indicated that in the analyzed period, the study shows that five women who died violently were pregnant, and that in the case of another five femicides, their partners were the ones who took their lives.

"We have normalized violence, we become insensitive to the phenomenon, these violent deaths of women are mainly based on those power relations. Women are taught in Honduras that they are for the home, for the care of the family, that is why they kill more housewives," she added.