Violencia contra las mujeres generada durante el confinamiento por la pandemia de Covid-19 en Paipa-Boyacá. Análisis comparativo con el Municipio de Santa Isabel-Brasil.

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an emergency in the field of public health, with an international category, on January 30, 2020, caused by the respiratory disease coronavirus type 2, although it was only recognized on March 11, when its global expansion in more than 114 countries, caused the Covid-19 pandemic. In Colombia, the national government adopted different measures to mitigate the spread of the virus, and as of March 25, 2020, a national quarantine was decreed for a period of two weeks, whose mandatory preventive isolation was successively extended until August 30, 2020. As a result of the five months of confinement, the daily dynamics of people had a disruptive change, modifying aspects such as the economy, social and family relationships, with which the phenomena of intrafamily violence increased due to the transformation of home spaces , in educational, labor and economic stress, with a greater coexistence that multiplied the cases of gender violence, where victims and perpetrators interacted almost 24 hours a day. Through an analysis of documentary content, this article describes the impact of the confinement of the covid-19 pandemic on violence against women, approached with an interdisciplinary approach and from legal considerations, studying the case of the municipality of Paipa-Boyacá, compared with this phenomenon occurred in the Republic of Brazil and in particular with the municipality of Santa Isabel State of São Paulo.