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Violence against women in Mexico includes different forms of gender-based violence. It may consist of emotional, physical, sexual, and/or mental abuse. [1] The United Nations (UN) has rated Mexico as one of the most violent countries for women in the world.
For Indigenous women, geography is a primary obstacle in violence, including femicide, as offices to report these instances are not located near Indigenous communities. [1] This leads to under-reporting, making it more challenging to quantify the level of violence against these women. [1]
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]
Indigenous LGBTQ people in Mexico face discrimination from inside and outside their community as scholars worry about rising violence against them.
Guatemalan indigenous women have also faced extensive violence.Throughout over three decades of conflict, Maya women and girls have continued to be targeted. [citation needed] The Commission for Historical Clarification found that 88% of women affected by state-sponsored rape and sexual violence against women were indigenous.
On the afternoon of 25 September 2021, a group of anonymous feminists intervened in the Christopher Columbus roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, Mexico City. On an empty plinth surrounded by protective fences, they installed a wooden antimonumenta, a guerrilla sculpture that calls for justice for the recurrent acts of violence against women in Mexico.
Mexican women are at risk for HIV infection because they often are unable to negotiate condom use. According to published research by Olivarrieta and Sotelo (1996) and others, the prevalence of domestic violence against women in Mexican marital relationships varies at between 30 and 60 percent of relationships.
Sexual violence against Indigenous women ties in closely with the need for control and power: when an Indigenous woman is raped it is seen as permissible and necessary due to the understanding that Indigenous women are less than white women and bordering on inhuman. [11]