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A candlelit vigil and march was held for Juarez on February 11, 2003, one week after the disappearance. [7] The vigil began at the Juarez home and saw about 300 people march from the house to St. Joseph's Church. By the third week of the search for Sofia, the Juarez family had removed the public memorial established outside their home. [16]
More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
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.
Violence surges in the Mexican border city of Juárez amid a war between La Linea and La Empresa crime organizations.
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On April 7, 1996, the torso of a woman was found in a vacant lot on the outskirts of the city, in a property called Lomas de Poleo, as well as several bones belonging to other victims. The torso belonged to Rosario García Leal, a 17-year-old employee at a Philips store who disappeared on December 7, 1995; she allegedly died of a craniecephalic ...
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In 2016, the government of Mexico City started offering free rape whistles to women at public transportation hubs. They also provided women-only subway cars and pink buses to help protect women. [1] On February 26, 2020, twenty professors were fired from the four colleges of the Autonomous University of Mexico State for sexual harassment. [90]