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While the number of women murdered in Mexico has grown substantially in recent years, the proportion of female victims of homicide has stayed constant over the last few decades. According to INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía), the ratio of homicides targeting women hovered between 10-13% from 1990 to 2020.
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 ...
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. [51] 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 ...
Mexico’s homicide rate is among the highest in the world and it remains a dangerous place for women, with figures showing around 10 women are murdered every day.
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. ...
The National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women in Mexico requested sanctions for those who distributed images of the body of Ingrid and requested that those who carry out work on these facts duly comply with the Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia General ("Law on Women's Access to a Life ...
The Feminicides of the cotton field (Spanish: Feminicidas del campo algodonero) is the media name for murders committed by two Mexican serial killers, Edgar Ernesto Álvarez Cruz and José Francisco Granados de la Paz (born 1979). [1] Both were active between 1993 and 2003, in the city of Ciudad Juárez. [2]
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]