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The United Nations (UN) has rated Mexico as one of the most violent countries for women in the world. [1] [2] According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography in Mexico (INEGI), 66.1 percent of all women ages 15 and older have experienced some kind of violence in their lives. [3]
The Women's Access Law defines femicide violence as: "The extreme form of gender violence against women, product of the violation of their human rights, in the public and private spheres, formed by the set of misogynist behaviors that can lead to social and State impunity and can culminate in homicide and other forms of violent death of women.
Violence against indigenous women often has higher rates than violence against non‐indigenous women. [where?] [citation needed] Many indigenous communities are rural, with few resources and little help from the government or non-state actors. These groups also often have strained relationships with law enforcement, making prosecution difficult.
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]
Limits on tribal prosecutions have worsened the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, experts say. Congress is weighing a fix. Native American women face an epidemic of violence.
In November 2019, Mexico vowed to stop gender-based violence as new statistics showed killings of women rose more than 10% in 2018. [ 59 ] Women in the Mexican Drug War (2006–present) have been raped, [ 60 ] [ 61 ] tortured, [ 62 ] [ 63 ] and murdered in the conflict.
The indigenous have been discriminated against because of their language, culture, stature, dress or indigenous features they have. “I think that racism among Mexican mixed bloods is so deep ...
Marcela Castro’s office in Chihuahua is more than 100 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, yet the distance doesn’t prevent her from assisting women in the United States in circumventing ...