Mexico had more than 10 murders of women every day this 2021

Mexico has 3,462 women murdered from January to November 2021, an average of more than 10 a day, according to figures updated Sunday by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). Of the total number of Mexican women murdered, 2,540 were victims of intentional homicide while 922 suffered femicide, as classified in Mexico as the murder of a woman for reasons of gender or sexist violence. The total number of victims is only 0.32% lower than that of the same period in 2020, when 3,473 women were killed in Mexico, according to the SESNSP registry. But femicides have risen 3.25% this 2021 compared to the first 11 months of last year, when 893 were reported.Meanwhile, in the same period the intentional homicides of women have been reduced by 1.55% year-on-year compared to the period from January to November 2020, when there were 2,580.Even so, data from the SESNSP showed that August 2021 has been the month with the most murders of women in Mexico since there is registration, with 271 women victims of intentional homicide and 111 who died from femicide, the highest figures for both crimes. Mexico has recorded the most violent years in its history in the first two years of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term, with 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,558 in 2020.The Government of Mexico reported last week that the country accumulates 30,693 intentional homicides so far in 2021, a year-on-year reduction of 3.8%. Despite this, the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) has recognized an increase of 15.5% year-on-year in the incidence of family violence. The entities of the country that accumulate the most victims of femicide so far in 2021 are the State of Mexico (132), Jalisco (66), Veracruz (66), Mexico City (64) and Nuevo León (57). And the municipalities with the highest incidence are Ciudad Juárez (16), Culiacán (16), San Pedro Tlaquepaque (14), Tlajomulco (13) and the mayor Gustavo A. Madero of Mexico City (12). The SESNSP also reported 57,194 female victims of intentional injuries, almost the same number as all of 2020, when there were 57,495 in the entire year. It also pointed to 19,484 women victims of rape, a year-on-year increase of 27.9% compared to the period from January to November 2020, when there were 15,238.It also registered 181 women who suffered a kidnapping, compared to 224 in all of 2020.While women victims of human trafficking have been 471 in the first 11 months of 2021, which already exceeds the 454 registered in all of 2020.

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