By Guadalupe Peñuelas Mexico City, May 14 (EFE).- Residents of Ciudad Juarez, the gritty Mexican border metropolis infamous for hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women and girls, are mobilizing to demand justice for a woman who was raped and tortured by assailants she identifies as employees of Mexico’s state-owned electric utility. On April 23, …
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Mexico protests demand justice, answers for violence, missing women 2 minutes read
Mexico City/Juarez City/Oaxaca, Mar 7 (efe-epa).- Women across Mexico on Sunday carried out a large marches and protests to demand justice for gender-based violence and answers on the whereabouts of missing women.
A march in Juárez City began in Puerta de Juárez with vehicles painted covered phrases such as “March 8 is not to celebrate, it is to fight” and “Being a woman should not be a danger” among the messages.
Juárez is known internationally for its high number of femicides. In 2020, 185 intentional homicides against women were registered and 28 of these took place in January of this year alone. In addition, there are 166 women missing from the city, cases that have accumulated in the span of 10 years.
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