At least 42 female leaders have been murdered since 2022 in Colombia. 86% of the cases in the last year and a half have gone unpunished.
In 2022 alone, about 60 environmentalists were massacred. “No one takes care of us. They did not take care of Ludivia and they do not take cared of the others either,” says one of her colleagues who prefers not to be identified. The count of murders adds up to 22 cases in 2019, 34 in 2020, 28 in 2021, 14 in 2022, 27 cases in 2023.