Who is Lilia Patricia Cardozo? Colombian women’s rights activist attacked with acid

Lilia Patricia Cardozo is the organizer and head of a NGO called Plataforma Feminista Boyacense
She was gone after while she was going for a stroll at a nearby park
The episode is presently being scrutinized and the assailant stays unidentified

On Monday, in Colombia’s northwestern Boyaca locale, ladies’ privileges dissident Lilia Patricia Cardozo was gone after with corrosive by a unidentified individual. The nation’s police are presently researching the situation and are attempting to distinguish the assailant who faces femicide.

Who is Lilia Patricia Cardozo? Lilia Patricia Cardozo is the organizer behind a NGO called Plataforma Feminista Boyacense (Boyacense Women’s activist Stage), as per a CNN report. The stage’s goal is to ended homegrown maltreatment, orientation savagery, and separation, and they work to protect casualties from the grip of victimizers.

Cardozo’s activism has frequently prompted her being targetted by bunches whom she brushed on some unacceptable side. She has been getting demise dangers beginning around 2022, and in September 2022 she was the country’s Public Security Joined endorsed a wellbeing convention to safeguard her.

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As per an assertion gave by the NGO on Facebook, Cardozo was gone after while she was going for a stroll at a neighborhood park. The San Rafael de Tunja College Medical clinic, where Cardozo was treated after the assault, said that the synthetic substance tossed at her impacted 4% of her body, including her face and chest.

Despite the security convention being enacted in September last year, it was carried out just in February of 2023 because of an absence of assets, per Tunja’s City chairman Alejandro Funeme. Consequently, the Boyacense Women’s activist Stage blamed Tunja’s neighborhood experts for initiating the convention gradually, which they say allowed the dissident to remain uncovered.

Femicide is a difficult issue in Colombia. In 2022, 612 ladies were killed because of their orientation in Colombia. Somewhere in the range of 2019 and 2020 the quantity of femicides developed from 571 to 630. This increment of in excess of 10% happened during the social separation measures taken after the Coronavirus episode.

Ladies and basic freedoms protectors are especially in danger in Colombia. Starting around 2016, in excess of 500 basic liberties activists have been killed in the nation, making it one of the deadliest nations for common freedoms protectors around the world