Mediatic disinformation as an instrument of discrimination against women

Abstract

The media have been responsible for generating misinformation in society regarding the crime of femicide, which is included in the Colombian legal system thanks to Law 1761 of 2015 (Rosa Elvira Cely). The inclusion of the aforementioned law created confusion in the population, because it was considered as punitive populism, without taking into account that femicide is a public health problem. Ignorance of this issue led them to reject it when it was included as an autonomous crime. However, its recognition was important, since in homicide the key point of the crime was not taken into account, which is that a woman is murdered because she is a woman. In Colombia and in many places, women's rights have been violated due to cultural and social issues, due to the stigmatization created by it and propagated by the media, a reprehensible behavior because no one can dispose of the life of a woman just because she is a woman.