Presentation Topics

     The two topics that peaked my interest for my presentation was 'Popular Resistance Against Femicide' and 'The Mothers of Soacha. 




    As someone who has been interested in true crime since middle school, despite that, the term Femicide is new to me because I believe it to be a term that America has not adopted. Femicide is the intentional killing of someone specifically because they are female. It's labeled as a hate crime due to its reasoning to be because of someone's gender. I think this is a topic that I would find a lot of interest in because some people have argued that the term homicide is just enough, and that there is no need for another term. I believe that America should adopt this term due to the severity of crimes against women all over. The fact that women are targeted because of their gender goes beyond it just being "another" homicide, it's a problem. Religious beliefs and spiritual practices are also classified as femicide. For example, honor killings. Although, there isn't a specific religion that has honor killings listed in their doctrines, but through evidence, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism, have all had founded evidence of honor killings being reported. Evidence of continuous control over female behavior. I would like to dive deep into the term Femicide in general, but also the founded evidence of resistance against the rising numbers of femicide on our female population. I would like to also discuss movements being created to fight this on going problem. 



    The next topic I found interesting, The Mothers of Soacha, is a human rights organization. This organization was founded in Columbia by mothers of men who were murdered, from Soacha, by the Columbian Army during the 2000s. These young men were falsely accused as guerilla fighters due to the military offering incentives, therefore commanders pressured their troops to produce higher body counts. This was crime from soldiers, on innocent, poor, and unemployed young men in Soacha. They were told that they would be given work. Unfortunately they were met with a terrible death and made to look like they were soldiers. The military then would report them as rebels who were killed in combat, therefore generating a higher count of bodies. These brave women of these young men, exposed the truth and fought for years for justice for their boys and brought forth accountability that the military needed to take. As well as the overwhelming abuse within the military. 

    Both these topics relate to the class in the way that it talks about the fight for justice, activism, social justice. Mainly the one on femicide touches the topics for this class more closely, but also the Mothers of Soacha, showcases how brave these women are. Both talk about the importance of standing up for what needs to change. To create a better world for others and ourselves as women.

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