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What we know about the unemployment of women on March 9 2:24
(CNN Spanish) - Women in Mexico are scheduled to stop their activities as a sign of rejection of gender violence in the country.
With the initiative called # UnDíaSinNosotras, women want to make visible the social weight they have in Mexico: according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, they represent 51.3% of the total population. They will also demand public policies that stop the wave of gender violence, which, they say, is not new, but continues to escalate.
The proposal is that on March 9, no woman attends work, shops, that they do a housework stop, that girls do not go to schools and that they do not go out.
Here are some figures of violence against women in Mexico:
1. Feminicides
Femicide in Mexico in figures 6:27The number of feminicides in Mexico has increased in recent years, according to official figures.
In 2019, 2,825 murders of women across the country were reported. Of these 1,006 cases were classified as femicide by the authorities, according to information from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System of January 2020.
The figure increased significantly compared to 2018, when 912 femicides were reported. Some argue that these figures are higher. According to Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz, femicides have increased 137% in the last five years.
Nelly Montealegre Díaz, Mexico's prosecutor against gender violence, said last month that in cases of “violence against women, we will investigate them thoroughly and be relentless in our actions,” amid the country's outrage over the brutal murder from Ingrid Escamilla.
2. Impunity and access to justice
Cases of feminicide and violence against women also have a component of social injustice: impunity.
While feminicide is the most extreme form of violence and discrimination against women and girls, according to Mexican law, and this is one of the Latin American countries that imposes one of the most severe prison sentences for this crime, in the The country has about 99% impunity in cases of violence against women.
According to a report by the NGO México Evalúa, sexual crimes against women over 18 rarely reach justice and between July and December 2019, 99.7% of cases of sexual violence against women of legal age do not They were denounced.
"It is a crime against women, but it also leads to injustice," said former Mexican senator, Angelica de la Peña, in Aristegui of CNN, talking about the unattended crimes and the responsibility of the State to disregard these crimes.
The National Human Rights Commission said in a report that "the role of the State and its omissions ... leads to impunity in the face of the most extreme manifestation of violence against women."
The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights established in a report on femicide and justice, says that there is "a pattern of systemic impunity, reflecting the lack of access to justice for women."
3. Gender gap and inequality
Although women make up just over 51% of the population of Mexico, they have less access to education and work, according to the 2017 National Survey on Discrimination of the Mexican government published in October 2019.
On education, the report indicates that in Mexico there is a “lack of options for young women, who have even reached a higher level of education than men,” and that there is also a “sexual division” in the workplace that “restricts development opportunities for women. ”
In addition, the participation of women in economic activities is much lower than that of men, according to the report: 42.7% of women aged 15 and over participate in an activity of this type versus 78.5% of the men.
Regarding access to the labor market, the report indicates less access to women, whose main cause is in the activities carried out by women in the private space, “since they devote more time to domestic and care activities, compared to the men".
4. Harassment
Sexual violence against women is much more serious than against men. According to the National Urban Public Security Survey of 2019, women are more vulnerable to sexual crimes in Mexico than men, accounting for 11 sex crimes against women for each sex crime against men.
That survey, cited in a Mexico Evalúa report, indicates that during the second half of 2019, more than 6 million women were victims of sexual harassment, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, attempted rape and rape.
INEGI estimates that 19.4% were victims of personal harassment and / or sexual violence during the second half of 2019 during the second half of 2019 and gender differences are wide, with cases against women (27 , 2%) higher than that of men (10.1%).
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