After watching narcos: Mexico season 3 touch on the issue of femicide in Mexico and talking to my uncles about it.. what really goes on in Mexico ? I know some organizations traffic women but like the show suggested. a lot of women and girls disappear and found dead under strange circumstances. an uncle of mine works at my grandmas mercado in the “country” side of Nuevo León and he told me about a girl in the next town that was missing was found dead bound with her own underwear and evidence of burning wax and small cuts around her genitals.
I don’t think narcos care enough to sexually torture these women so I’m wondering if there really is a large amount of serial killers/rapist in Mexico.
If anybody has insight or more stories I would like to know thanks
Link to article on the incident in Philadelphia:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/us/riders-watched-woman-raped-septa.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
Report on how the number of women murdered by their partners has risen to an average of 4 a day in recent years, after 40 years of a steady decline in the figures previously:
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-games/201909/the-number-women-murdered-partner-is-rising
Is the fact that most of murderers are perpetrated by men a valid reason to give more importance, attention, resources and a higher sentence to the murder of women?
From the WHO, with my own corrections made in brakets:
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/77421/WHO_RHR_12.38_eng.pdf?sequence=1
''Violence against women comprises a wide range of acts – from verbal harrasment and other forms of emotional abuse, to daily physical or sexual abuse (all violence is) . At the far end of the spectrum is femicide: the murder of a woman.
Femicide is generally understood to involve intentional murder of women because they are women, but broader definitions include any killings of women or girls. (so just the murder of a woman)
This information sheet focuses on the narrower definition commonly used in policies, laws and research: intentional murder of women.
Femicide is usually perpetrated by men ***(all murders are usually perpretated by men)***, but sometimes female family members may be involved.
Femicide differs from male homicide in specific ways.
For example, most cases of femicide are committed by partners or ex-partners, and involve ongoing abuse in the home, threats or intimidation, sexual violence or situations where women have less power or fewer resources than their partner.
Femicide committed by someone without an intimate relationship with the victim is known as non-intimate femicide, and femicide involving sexual aggression is sometimes referred to as sexual femicide.'' (so you can assign femicide to any murder of a woman)
Wikipedia on overall murder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
''According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 78.7% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women.
A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide.''
(reposted to unambiguously follow the rule of not antagonising a movement)
