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Thousands march on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

by Yucatan Times
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Every year, more than 3,000 women — including children and teens — are murdered in Mexico but only 24% of that figure is counted as femicides.

Feminist and civil society organizations, however, point out that it is very likely that this number is much higher due to the problems getting prosecutors and courts to investigate and pass judgment from a gender perspective.

“Of all those murdered, 50% have characteristics of femicide,” says María de la Luz Estrada, director of the National Femicide Observatory, which believes the real number of femicides is more than 1,500 each year. Until the month of September, state prosecutors’ offices had tallied 625 of these misogynistic murders.

A recent study published by the National Institute of Statistics (Inegi) indicates that in recent years there has been an increase in sexual crimes against girls and adolescents, complaints of family violence, trafficking, and child femicides.

For example, in girls between five and nine years old, sexual abuse occurs almost three times more often than in boys, while girls between 15 and 17 years old were abused eight times more than their male peers.

In 2022, according to data from the state prosecutors, the crime of rape registered a peak in the 10 to 14-year-old group and occurred 4.7 times more in girls than in boys of this age, with 4,197 complaints filed.

Currently, between 10 and 11 women are murdered a day, the impunity rate exceeds 95%, and only one in 10 victims dares to report their attacker due to fear and lack of trust in the authorities.

As women grow older, violence also increases. A 2023 national census by state prosecutors shows that in the case of girls and adolescents from 0 to 17 years old, violence within the family is the crime that occurs most frequently, with 22,271 cases this year. This year, 2,588 crimes were recorded against girls aged 0 to 4 years and 8,058 cases involving teens aged 15 to 17 years. Family violence occurs approximately twice as often in girls as in boys and increases as women become adults, while in men it decreases during the last stage of adolescence.

Hundreds of women will take to the streets again on Saturday, November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to demand justice and an end to murders, rapes, disappearances, harassment and impunity. 

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