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“In Mexico and Guatemala women are being killed at alarming rates but the perpetrators are overwhelmingly never brought to justice. This scandal has led family members of the victims to refer to the problem as a “femicide,” the most extreme expression of gender based violence accepted culturally and by the State when its laws don’t criminalize violence against women and whereby negligence or the lack of political will results in almost total impunity for the perpetrators of such brutality.
According to comprehensive analysis by Amnesty International, approximately 400 young women have been murdered or abducted in the cities of Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico since 1993. In Guatemala, over 2,500 women and girls have been murdered since 2001. In Mexico, the brutality with which the assailants abduct and murder the women goes further than the act of killing in a significant number of cases. Many of the women are held captive for several days and subjected to humiliation, torture and the most horrific sexual violence before being killed. In Guatemala some of the victims had their throats cut, were beaten, shot or stabbed to death. Many of their bodies showed signs of rape, torture, mutilation or dismemberment. A range of motives are reflected and both state and non-state actors are involved, but in all cases the victims gender is a significant factor, in both the kind of violence perpetrated and in the level of response by authorities.”
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