Violence against women in Mexico includes different forms of gender-based violence. It may consist of emotional, physical, sexual, and/or mental abuse...

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily committed by men...

sexual violence and torture, abductions, increasing rates of women being murdered because of their gender. While the number of women murdered in Mexico has...

violence against women. According to Pantaleo, "Under the view of patriarchy, two expressions are commonly used in Mexico to show the difference in the...

Violence against women in the United States is the use of domestic abuse, murder, sex-trafficking, rape and assault against women in the United States...

victims and perpetrators of violence. Violence against women is the opposite category, where acts of violence are targeted against the female gender. Studies...

prostitution experience higher levels of violence against them than the general population of women. A long-term study published in 2004 estimated the homicide rate...

for women in general in Mexico, according to a Reuters report on the "pandemic" of violence against women in Mexico. News reports have stated that in some...

This is a list of incidents of violence against women. The cases are sorted by country and year. Malalai Kakar (2008) Bibi Aisha Sahar Gul (2011) Sushmita...

Violence against women in Guatemala reached severe levels during the long-running Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), and the continuing impact of that...

to the United States. The violence against women in the drug war has spread beyond Mexico to bordering and nearby countries in Central America and North...

of women in Mexico has changed significantly over time. Until the twentieth century, Mexico was an overwhelmingly rural country, with rural women's status...

the Elimination of Violence Against Women defined domestic violence as: Physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, including...

extent of women and children. Victims are deceived and/or abducted and forced into prostitution. They are sex trafficked to different states in Mexico, along...

1930) is a Mexican serial killer who is popularly known as Jack Mexicano. From 1960 to 1962, Alcalá is believed to have killed women in Mexico City who...

rape, violence against women, and domestic violence in the capital. According to the CNDH, only one out of every ten crimes is reported in Mexico; this...

other nicknames, was a Mexican serial killer who killed twenty prostitutes in Mexico City from 1880 to 1888, and one final victim in 1908. Due to his modus...

against the Mexican State, motivated by the lack of response from the same. In 2005 the Inter-American Court approved and admitted the case, and in January...

Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human...

April 2022. Lettieri, Michael. Violence Against Women in Mexico. Trans-Border Institute, 2017, Violence Against Women in Mexico. http://sites.sandiego...

persons may have difficulties in obtaining necessary health care. The rate of domestic violence against women in Mexican marital relationships varies at...

1974 – c. January 6, 2011) was a Mexican poet and human rights activist who was born and lived most of her life in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez. She...

1969 – December 11, 2007) was a Mexican writer and serial killer. He was charged with murdering and eating his girlfriend in 2007, to which he confessed before...

inequality in Mexico refers to disparate freedoms in health, education, and economic and political abilities between men and women in Mexico. It has been...

The Tinaco Killer., is a Mexican serial killer who killed at least 16 women between 2013 and 2016 in the state of Nuevo León. In 2018, he was sentenced...

Violence and Activism at the Border is a book by University of Texas professor Kathleen Staudt, in which the author discusses violence against women in...

Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. It was estimated in 2012 that 40 percent of women have experienced physical sexual violence. About...

various Violence Against Women Acts have been passed by the US Congress in an attempt to stem this tide. Victimization from domestic violence transcends...

fire in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, killing 52 people. The arson attack left over a dozen injured, and over 35 trapped for several hours. Mexican forces...

occupation of Mexico (1862–67) resulted in the adoption of the Napoleonic Code, which decriminalized same-sex sexual acts in 1871. Laws against public immorality...