The femicides are the most extreme type of physical violence that it has ever been done against the female defenders. Femicides are committed in order to neutralize their labor and demobilize the organizations. The States are implementing repressive politics that increase the role of the security forces and offer a place to the private companies ́ impunity.
In 2017, Front Line Defenders registered 312 assassinations of female and male defenders in 27 countries, 67% was defending the land, the rights of the indigenous nations and the environment, almost every time in context of megaprojects ́activities, extractive industries and big corporations.
According to the Mesoamerican Register of Assaults to Female Defenders of Human Rights (Registro Mesoamericano de Agresiones a Defensoras de Derechos Humanos), from 2012 to 2014, the female defenders of the Earth, the land and the natural resources were the female defenders of Human Rights the most attacked. They suffered 525 assaults which represent 31% of a total of 1688 attacks to female defenders