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2020 saw an increase in femicides; in the first seven months of 2020, reports suggested 2,000 femicides had occurred. Mexico is considered one of the countries with more femicides in Latin America and the world, among the most dangerous states is the State of Mexico, especially for one of its municipalities: Ecatepec, since in this state 84 murders were reported in the first months of the year.
According to Amnesty International, "In [2009], the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on the “cotton field” (Campo Algodonero) case that Mexico was guilty of discrimination and of failing to protect three young women murdered in 2001 in Ciudad Juárez or to ensure an effective investigation into their abduction and murder." [16 ...
And while the murder rate has fallen in Mexico between 2019 and 2022, ... Female homicides often fail to get prosecuted, with 88.6% impunity rate for femicide cases, according to Mexico Evalua ...
In the first 52 months of her term, Mexico City saw 5,078 homicides, a figure higher than those recorded under the administrations of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard, and Miguel Ángel Mancera. [57] Despite this, the homicide rate was reduced from 17.9 per 100,000 people in 2018 to 8.6 in 2022. [58] [59]
The shooting took place as murders in Juárez have been on a downward trajectory with 75 homicides reported in August, the lowest monthly total so far in 2024. Mexican cartel battle heats up ...
And while the murder rate fell in Mexico between 2019 and 2022, in absolute numbers the country is still reeling from historically high levels of around 30,000 homicides each year. The true number ...
In 2016, Mexico had a rate of 4.6 femicides per 100,000 women, and there were a total of 2,746 female deaths with the presumption of them being homicides. [50] In this same year, the top three states with the highest rates of female deaths with presumption of homicide were Colima (with 16.3 deaths per 100,000 women), Guerrero (13.1 per 100,000 ...
The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead less than a day after the country elected its first female president, in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates.