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United Nations Urges Swift Action to Address Violence against Women during Pandemic
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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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Read moreLatAm Women Decry Violence, Inequality on International Women’s Day
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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Read moreCCE: Curbing Crime Is Key to Mexican Economic Growth
XINHUA Cutting crime in Mexico is key to attracting more foreign investment, leading to higher economic growth, the Private Sector Center for Economic Studies (CEESP) said in its weekly report, issued on Sunday, Feb. 2. “That is why it is indispensable to guarantee security,” said the CEESP, which is part of the conservative Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Mexico’s largest business
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By RICARDO CASTILLO March for Truth, Justice and Peace The several thousand participants in the so-called March for Truth, Justice and Peace on Sunday, Jan. 26, were demanding that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) government come up with a strategy to put an end to the apparently endless and seemingly eternal rising number of murders that Mexico is
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