In a bulletin published on April 13th, the Fray Bartolom de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) warned of the rise in gender violence in Chiapas since the beginning of the year, particularly against indigenous women.
It stated that according to data from the Feminist Observatory against Violence against Women in Chiapas, during the first quarter of the year at least 18 femicides were perpetrated, affirming that these data represent “a minimal sample of the great and serious problems that the State reflects.”
It also denounced that a “constant” strategy of the state government “has been to deny the dimension of the emergency for femicide in the state and not to implement the investigation protocols according to international standards, resulting in a decrease in the media of the statistics of femicide.”
It also condemned the increase in the disappearances and femicides of girls and adolescent women in the state when “at least 51 disappeared have not been found, including a four-year-old girl, from a record of 69 in the first quarter of the year. 49% are adolescents between 14 and 18 years old.”
For this reason, Frayba urged the Mexican State “to comply with the Final Observations on the Ninth Periodic Report of Mexico, issued on July 25th, 2018, by the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women”; in particular: “Take urgent measures to prevent violent deaths, murders and enforced disappearances of women, in particular by combating the root causes of these acts.”
At the end of March, the Feminist Observatory against Violence against Women had denounced for its part that “within the first three months, 47 violent deaths of women were registered, which means that every two days there is an occurrence within the entity”.
For more information in Spanish:
A la alza violencia hacia las mujeres en pueblos originarios (El Heraldo de Chiapas, 15 de abril de 2020)
Frayba denuncia incremento de violencia contra mujeres en Chiapas (Contralínea, 13 de abril de 2020)
Persiste violencia hacia las mujeres en Chiapas (Frayba, 13 de abril de 2020)
Prevalece la estadística en 2020; cada dos días, una mujer muere de forma violenta en Chiapas (Chiapas, 8 de abril de 2020)
For more information from SIPAZ:
Chiapas: Two Women Murdered in Tonala (January 14, 2020)
Chiapas/International: Second Encounter of Women Who Struggle Held by EZLN (January 13, 2020)
Chiapas/National: March and Press Conference for International Day to Eradicate Violence against Women (December 4, 2019)
Chiapas: Groups Denounce Increase in Femicides and Transfemicides in the State (August 27, 2019)
Chiapas: March in San Cristobal de Las Casas Following Another Femicide (August 25, 2019)
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