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While the number of women murdered in Mexico has grown substantially in recent years, the proportion of female victims of homicide has stayed constant over the last three decades. According to the INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía), the ratio of homicides targeting women hovered between 10-13% between 1990 and 2020.
More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
In 2016, Mexico had a rate of 4.6 femicides per 100,000 women, and there were a total of 2,746 female deaths with the presumption of them being homicides. [50] In this same year, the top three states with the highest rates of female deaths with presumption of homicide were Colima (with 16.3 deaths per 100,000 women), Guerrero (13.1 per 100,000 ...
And while the murder rate has fallen in Mexico between 2019 and 2022, ... Female homicides often fail to get prosecuted, with 88.6% impunity rate for femicide cases, according to Mexico Evalua. ...
According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims were men in 2013. [1] In 2021, males accounted for most homicide victims in all jurisdictions except in Austria, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland, where females were slightly more likely to be homicide victims. [2]
As of 2012, Mexico has the 16th highest rate of homicides committed against women in the world. [50] In the first 4 months of 2020 987 women and girls were murdered. [ 51 ] Approximately 10 women are killed every day in Mexico, and the rate of femicide has doubled in the last 5 years.
After several years of declines, Mexico's homicide rate has started to rise, with the total body count for the first half of 2016 the highest since 2012.
Her murder was atypical to other related cases because they had kept her alive for a relatively long time, which had not happened in other cases. [ 7 ] After their arrests, the five men confessed to having murdered eight women, although they later recanted and claimed to have been tortured by the police to plead guilty. [ 8 ]