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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.
In 2012, Mexico was ranked as the 16th country with the highest rates of femicides. [50] Moreover, between 2011 and 2016, there were an average of 7.6 female homicides per day. [51] 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]
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)
A study was conducted in 2008 on the Femicide Database 1993–2007 at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte which documented incidents of femicide that occurred in Ciudad Juárez from 1993 to 2010. Of the various different kinds of murders that were analyzed, the study found two common patterns in the data which were classified as intimate femicide ...
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Suicides and homicides also triggered mass protests by women and activists nationwide, but the epicentre of protests and riots was in Mexico City. Mexicans have been on the streets since 9 March, when a nationwide strike by hundreds of thousands of Women went ahead. Anti-govt mass protests also took place on 10 March nationwide.
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 ...