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Mexico has the second highest rate of femicides within Latin America, with an average of 10.5 femicides committed every day. Femicides are most prevalent in the states of Veracruz, State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Puebla, and Mexico City. [6] Of these crimes, 3% are criminally investigated and 1% of perpetrators are convicted. [7]
In 2012, Mexico was ranked as the 16th country with the highest rates of femicides. [49] Moreover, between 2011 and 2016, there were an average of 7.6 female homicides per day. [50] 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]
The National Citizen Observatory on Femicide of Mexico (Spanish: Observatorio Ciudadano Nacional del Feminicidio de México, OCNF) is a Mexican central entity of citizen participation focused on the exercise of the defense of human rights with a gender perspective. It has been a reference body for the accompaniment of victims of gender violence ...
Women activists demonstrate against the femicide of Bianca Alejandrina, a 20-year-old girl known as Alexis on November 11, 2020 in Mexico City. (Pedro Pardo / AFP via Getty Images)
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.
Activist Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre (May 5, 1993 – January 18, 2020) was a Mexican artist, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and activist with Mesa de Mujeres. [ 3 ] She was also a member of Hijas de su Maquilera Madre an anti-capitalist feminist collective from Ciudad Juárez, with which she protested against femicides in the city.
Human rights activists in Mexico had already suffered a bad year by the time 58-year-old Cristina Vazquez was murdered in her apartment in an affluent Mexico City neighborhood at the end of June.
A metal barrier erected around Mexico’s National Palace ahead of planned International Women’s Day demonstrations has been turned into a memorial by activists.This footage, posted to Twitter ...