Falta de tipificación de la violencia económica contra las mujeres en el Código Orgánico Integral Penal del Ecuador

Abstract

The economic violence against women is recognized since 2018 in the Integral Organic Law to prevent and eradicate violence against women, when it happens the aggressors try to manage their victims in fear and under their control, the limited of the economic resources of women violates their rights and affects their autonomy, empowerment, security, dignity, and well-being; For all the damages that economic violence causes to women, it must be recognized as criminally relevant conduct and be classed in the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code as a criminal infraction to prevent this type of violence and to punish the aggressors, nowadays this problem continues increasing and impunity also exists in our country because the aggressors cannot be punished based on the principle of legality.