By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Nov. 7, Mexican anti-corruption officials and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum accused the Morelos Attorney General’s Office of covering up the murder of 27-year-old Ariadna López, whose lifeless body was found on a highway in Morelos last week. López reportedly disappeared from the Mexican capital’s trendy Condesa neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 30 after
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By KELIN DILLON Culpable homicides against women have been rising in Mexico across the course of 2022’s summer, reaching new year-over-year levels of violence when compared to data from June, July and August of 2021. In Mexico, culpable homicide means that a death was caused by accident or without intent, and is differentiated from femicides and intentional homicides in that
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By KELIN DILLON According to the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography’s (Inegi) annual National Survey on the Dynamics of Relationships in Households 2021 (Endireh), more than 70.1 percent of Mexico’s 50 million-plus women over the age of 15 have experienced at least one violent situation throughout the past 12 months, statistics reflective of Mexico’s enduring femicide crisis. The
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By KELIN DILLON According to a group of psychologists and sociologists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and La Salle University, Mexico’s enduring violence against women and femicide crisis is a result of a number factors: the continued normalization of violence in the country, repeated impunity for perpetrators and the Mexican government’s methodology of publicly characterizing protestors against
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON Despite claims that the Mexican government has taken steps to combat the nation’s enduring femicide crisis, violence against women in the country has not gotten better across the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Instead, it has become increasingly worse. As reports of intentional homicides against women continue across Mexico, including a 900
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By MARK LORENZANA The number of missing women in Mexico City has increased 900 percent so far under the administration of Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum, compared to the previous administration headed by Miguel Ángel Mancera. According to Mexico’s National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, the number of missing women in the capital increased from 93 cases (registered
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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
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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 Missing Mexican Instagram model Adriana Murrieta Trevino, who was found in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on Monday, Nov. 2, apparently died of strangulation, police reported over the weekend. Murrieta Trevino, 29, was first reported missing by her family on Sunday, Nov. 2, after flying into Guadalajara, Jalisco, from the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa. She was a
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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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