By MEREL HAENEN Mexico is slated to host the world’s largest forum on violence against women in the resort city of Cancun, Quintana Roo, in September 2022. The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum, the largest global conference on violence against women and children, was inaugurated on Thursday, Dec. 9, in an international online webinar. During the event, Claudia García-Moreno,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Between July and August, the number of gender-based murders of women in Mexico increased 57.3 percent, to a record total of 107 femicides, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). The August femicides represent the highest number since records first began to be kept in Mexico in 2015, the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Tragic Saga of Victoria She came to Mexico as a refugee in 2018, with the hopes of eventually making her way to the United States and getting political asylum there. But for 36-year-old Salvadorian Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza, the journey north would come to an abrupt end at the hands of the Mexican police, who, after
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By KELIN DILLON On International Women’s Day, Monday, March 8, over 20,000 of Mexico’s women marched throughout Mexico City in planned protests of violence nationwide against women, and the country’s high femicide rate of more than 10 women killed each day, reaching the National Palace, where they rallied against populist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for his apparent
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By KELIN DILLON In an interview with El Universal, Érika Guevara Rosas, director of Amnesty International (AI) in the Americas, admonished Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his repeated flippance on Mexico’s widespread gender violence problem. “Mexico occupies one of the first places in the world in the number of femicides, of disappearances of girls and adolescents with pregnancies
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By KYLIE MADRY Domestic, Sexual Violence Continue to Rise Domestic and sexual violence are on the rise for the 5th straight month in Mexico, according to statistics released by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) Sunday, Oct. 25. In September, 20,087 criminal complaints were filed for domestic violence. That’s the second highest month this year, after
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Getting Back to Work The covid-19 lockdown is taking its toll everywhere in Mexico. The truth is, each and every able body in the country would rather be working than inventing in pastimes at home. But some who are already moving ahead of the pandemic are paving the road for when the moment comes to restart the
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XINHUA Women across Mexico and throughout Latin America marked International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8, with marches and demonstrations demanding equality and an end to the growing problem of violence against women, or femicide. In Mexico City, women’s organizations marched on the main square, or Zócalo, where they painted the names of fatal victims of domestic violence and other
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was never supposed to turn into a free-for-all political power grab, but it did. A week ago, various feminist organizations issued a summons a total stoppage of female activities on Monday, March 9. The plan was made official by a group called Witches of the Sea, located in the state of Veracruz. On Feb 18, an
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