Mexico declares 1st 'alert' over violence against women

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mexico declares 1st 'alert' over violence against women
Jul 29, 5:47 PM EDT


MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's government has declared a first-ever "gender alert" for a central state due to a high incidence of killings and disappearances of women.

The alert for the State of Mexico, outside the capital, was decreed by the Interior Department. It cites "systematic violence against women" and "an atmosphere of impunity and permissiveness" toward such crimes.

The report says more than 1,700 women were slain in the state between 2005 and 2014, and at least 4,281 women and girls disappeared. Most of the missing reappeared alive, but 1,554 have never been heard from again.

The alert triggers measures designed to spur investigation and prevention, though none have officially been announced.
Maria de la Luz Estrada of the National Citizens' Observatory on Femicide said Wednesday that the alert sets a "historic" precedent.

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[Dont call me Shirley]

1. This is frightening. Males must stop this violence against females. Stop the violence period!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Mexico: Prosecutors victorious against sex slave killers

Mexico: Prosecutors victorious against sex slave killers
Jul 2015 Thursday 30th
posted by Morning Star in World



MEXICAN prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they had won “historic” convictions and sentences of 697 years in prison for five men over the killing of 11 women near the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

The state prosecutor’s office in Chihuahua state said that the men had lured women with the promise of jobs, but instead subjected them to human trafficking and forced prostitution before killing them.

A statement from the office called the sentences for aggravated homicide and human trafficking “exemplary and historic.”

Prosecutors followed the trail of victims, many of whom disappeared in 2009 or 2010 after applying for shop jobs, to a hotel in Ciudad Juarez where the women were apparently held and forced to work as prostitutes.

More:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-4095-Mexico-Prosecutors-victorious-against-sex-slave-killers#.Vblkt89RGbw