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Women Take to the Streets for Mexico City’s 8M March
The barricade was announced by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a way to deter vandalism and violence from the protesters onto the National Palace
Read moreJustice Remains Elusive for Mexico’s Disappeared and Missing
By MEREL HAENEN On Oct. 21, 2019, relatives of Mónica Ruth Rojas reported her disappearance after she did not return after a day’s work from a factory only a few blocks from her home in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico (EdoMéx). A year later, her lifeless body was found not far from where she was last reportedly seen, differentiating her case
Read moreMexican Women’s Right Worker Shot Dead in Veracruz
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender against the mounting incidence of femicide Cecilia Monzón was shot dead in Puebla on Saturday, May 21. The attack occurred around 10 a.m., in front of Puebla’s La Riviera subdivision According to eyewitness and police reports, Monzón was ambushed in her car by two men on
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Femicides in Mexico
Read moreNo End in Sight for Mexico’s Deadliest Pandemic
OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
Read moreDebanhi Escobar’s Murder Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
OPINION By MEREL HAENEN After a 13-day nationwide manhunt, the lifeless body of missing Mexican teenager Debanhi Escobar was finally discovered on Thursday, April 21, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inside an abandoned cistern just a few hundred meters from where she was last seen on the morning of her disappearance, in the early hours of Saturday, April 9. That much
Read moreInternational Women’s Day in Mexico Casts a Dark Shadow
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thousands of Mexican women are expected to take to the streets on Tuesday, March 8, to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), and while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has called on the marchers to avoid violence, few expect the protests to be 100 percent pacifistic. Mexico, with one of the highest per capita incidences of
Read moreNumber of Femicides Continue to Mount in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Last year was the most violence in Mexican history for women, with 1,040 victims of femicide in the country, the highest figure since this high-impact crime began to be reported in official statistics in 2015. This means that, on average, two women were killed each day because of their gender; most of them in
Read moreCancun to Host World’s Largest Forum on Violence against Women
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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