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Final Project Milestone 2: Creating a Position on a Topic You Care About

Paulina Jaret Magana Corona

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Walden University

HMNT 1005D: Academic Thought and Expression in a Technological World

Juan Ortiz

Month 03, 2021

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The increase in femicides in Mexico has been increasing year after year, creating
disagreement and protest movements in Mexican female society.
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The femicide in México

Introduction.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most severe, widespread, deep-rooted, and

tolerated human rights violations globally. This violence is both a cause and a consequence of

gender inequality and discrimination, both in the home, school, public spaces, work, cyberspace,

politics, and institutions; women and girls face various types of violence, not necessarily

physical, if not verbal and psychological. Today as yesterday, most of these crimes remain in

impunity, which has generated outrage and concern among various sectors of Mexican society.

According to Lagarde (2008), femicide occurs when the State or some of its

institutions do not provide women and girls with the necessary guarantees and security

conditions in both public and private spaces.

Figures from the 2016 National Survey on the Dynamics of Relationships at Home

(ENDIREH). Revealed that 66 of every 100 women over 15 years of age in Mexico have

suffered at least one incident of emotional, economic, physical, sexual violence or discrimination

in their lifetime, despite the tremendous effort that has been made in recent years to combat this

problem.

1.1 Femicides in Mexico.

The information provided by the Executive Secretariat of the National Security System shows

that during 2019 at least 1,600 women of all ages were victims of femicide, 580 more crimes

than in 2015.
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YEARS.

Retrieved from: I.Kanter Coronel (2020a)

1.2 Femicides in girls and adolescents.

It is worrisome to observe daily in the news femicides of girls under 17 years of age since there

are more and more cases.

In this regard, UN Women (2018) has pointed out that between 2015 and 2018, there

were 194 femicides of girls and adolescents, meaning that 10% of the femicides registered in that

year are girls under 17 years of age. do to guarantee the life and safety of girls and adolescents”

(UN Women, 2018).

1.3 Willful or intentional homicides of women and girls.

This situation is even more critical when the intentional homicides of women and girls are added

to femicides, finding that both types of crimes increased by around 77% between 2015 and 2019.

An average of six women and girls murdered per day in 2015; there were eight crimes

in 2016, nine in 2017, and ten in 2018 and 2019. In the opinion of experts on the subject, this
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increase in crimes against women and girls responds to the lack of "… forceful actions on the

part of the State to identify the problem, because if something is not identified and named, it

cannot it exists, and because this violence is not punished or prevented "(Echarri, 2012: s / p).

VICTIMS

AÑO FEMINICIDE INTENTIONAL TOTAL WOMEN AND

KILLINGS GIRLS KILLED

PER DAY

2015 426 1,735 2,161 6

2016 642 2,190 2,832 8

2017 765 2,536 3,301 9

2018 912 2,773 3,685 10

2019 1,006 2,819 3,825 10

TOTAL 3,751 12,053 15,804

Retrieved from: SESNSP (2020ª)

1.4 2019: A feminist year in México.

Let's talk about feminism and what it seeks in the strict sense. We are talking about the world

having the conditions so that women can live freely and decide about their body, be leafy or thin,

live their sexuality freely without being called which or such form, that they can dress freely -

like men - without being harassed, raped or killed for it, that they can say "no" and that it is not

respected.
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The feminist movement had already been touring other parts of the world for years, but the
significant increase in murders and disappearances of girls and women in the country reaffirmed
the slogans of: "Not one more!", "'Justice! "And" They are killing us! "
2019 has been a year full of revolutions and movements such as:

• #METOO: Although the movement echoed internationally in 2017 thanks to the tweet "If you
have been harassed or violated, respond with a #MeToo", it was until that year that it gained
strength in Mexico, where thousands of women raised their voices to report the violence they
suffered in different areas, using the hashtag #metoo

• #NoMeCuidanMeViolan: On August 12, dozens of women protested at the Secretariat of

Citizen Security in the capital, where they shouted - and spray-painted the walls - the slogans
"Violators!", "Justice!" and "They don't take care of me; they rape me." They also broke glass
doors and windows and threw a pink diamond

• "A rapist on your way": On November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women, feminists from all over the world protested in their way: in Mexico, with
marches and carrying the photos of victims of femicide; in Chile -for example-, with the
performance "Un violador en tu camino", created by the group Las Tesis and which quickly
became an anthem of the "fourth wave of feminism" in Mexico.

Conclusion.

Year after year, the increase in femicides in Mexico is constantly growing. Daily, hundreds of

girls and women are attacked, raped, murdered, and re-victimized by individuals and institutions

that violate them socially, politically, and economically. The figures are worrying, and yet we

know little about the actual magnitude of the phenomenon.

The statistics offered by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security

System show the seriousness of the phenomenon; between January and February 2019, 166

women and girls were victims of femicide and 466 of intentional or intentional homicides, which

translates into the close of 11 murders a day.

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The younger women have organized themselves in a powerful movement that claims ownership

of their rights and rejects the current State of things, demanding a new social pact. The demand

is apparent: the Mexican State must recognize the magnitude of the violence and change

accordingly.

References

Kánter Coronel, Irma (2020) “Feminicidios y asesinatos dolosos de mujeres y niñas en

México en 2019”. Mirada Legislativa No. 183, Instituto Belisario Domínguez, Senado de la

República, Ciudad de México, 47p

ONU Mujeres (2018), “La violencia contra las mujeres no es normal ni tolerable.

Garantizar los derechos humanos de las mujeres y las niñas es trabajo de todas y de todos”,

comunicado de prensa Día Internacional de la Mujer, México.

https://mexico.unwomen.org/es/noticias-yeventos/articulos/2018/11/violencia-contra-las-mujeres

Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SESNSP, 2020a),

Información sobe violencia contra las mujeres. Incidencia delictiva y llamadas de emergencia 9-

1-1, información con corte al 31 de diciembre de 2019, Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección

Ciudadana, enero de 2020. Retrieved from

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3URXMUBiFMa46moO4k2v_G95fR5LVfp/view

Olamendi P. (2016). Feminicidio en México. México: Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres.

Retrieved from http://cedoc.inmujeres.gob.mx/documentos_download/Feminicidio-en-

Mexico2017.pdf
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Galvan, M. (2019, 28 diciembre). 2019, el año en que la ‘Ola feminista’ sacudió a

México. EXPANSIÓN. https://politica.expansion.mx/sociedad/2019/12/28/2019-el-ano-en-que-

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