Seven each day: Mexican women murders on the rise amid drug wars
Seven each day: Mexican women murders on the rise amid drug wars
by Anastasia Moloney | @anastasiabogota | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 15 December 2017 18:50 GMT
BOGOTA, Dec 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than seven women are killed on average every day in Mexico, with numbers surging in recent years amidst the country's brutal drug wars, a report by the Mexican government and United Nations said.
A third of more than 50,000 murders of women in the past three decades have occurred in the last six years, said a report by Mexico's interior ministry, the National Institute for Women and U.N. Women.
More women have become victims of drug wars - caught up in turf wars between drug cartels and an army-led offensive against drug gangs launched in 2006 by then-president Felipe Calderon.
Rising numbers of women murdered outside the home, often gunned down in streets, parks and near places of work, is in part "related to the increase in the activities of organized crime," said the report published on Wednesday.
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