In Mexico, ten women are murdered every day. Feminicides that push Mexican feminist activists to put pressure on the government of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador to demand effective public policies to prevent these murders.

"Despite the increase in sentences in several states of the country, cases of women murdered by their partners or during rape have continued to increase," said Laurence Cuvillier, France 24 correspondent in Mexico. "In 2019, more than 3800 women were murdered. Among these murders, more than a thousand were classified as feminicides. That is to say, the investigators consider that they were killed because they were women. "

The two particularly horrific recent murders of a woman and a girl have re-mobilized local feminist movements, which have again criticized the failings of the police, the justice system, and a completely overwhelmed government, despite the hopes raised in 2018 by the coming to power for the first time of a leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Raised on the front line, Mexican feminists called on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for "effective public policies to combat violence against women"

After International Women's Rights Day on March 8, a strike was called for Monday, March 9. All Mexican women are invited to stay at home for "a day without a woman".

With AFP

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