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
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO Outages Set Off Political Sparks The electricity outages on Monday, Feb. 15, in six northern Mexican states may have been caused by the freezing temperatures affecting Texas, but they set off a new round of heated debates at Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO’s) Electricity Bill. Beyond Texas’ pumped gas shortage,
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XINHUA The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout will likely push 47 million more women into poverty, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty, new data released by the United Nations on Wednesday, Sept. 2, revealed. The study, commissioned by UN Women and the UN Development Program (UNDP), points to a 9.1 percent increase in the poverty rate for women.
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XINHUA Governments across the world must act urgently to prevent and tackle the rising rates of violence against women and girls during the covid-19 crisis, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said Friday, May 22. The UNDP said that, given a rise in femicides and assaults on women, all governments must how put “stronger measures in place,” such as designating
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Photo: biiang.com By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS What are the features that make a woman feminine and a man masculine? Certainly, body structure and form – along with genitals – define a person’s sexuality and gender. But it is our unique facial features, our individual physiognomy, that gives each of us our most important sexual identity with which we confront the outside
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