- Title: Women call on Mexico's Attorney General to step up investigations into femicides
- Date: 11th July 2017
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (JULY 11, 2017) (REUTERS) WOMEN PROTESTING IN STREET OUTSIDE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, CARRYING BANNERS WOMAN CHANTING (Spanish): "NOT ONE MORE!" WOMAN WALKING INTO ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE TO DELIVER LETTER DIRECTED AT ATTORNEY GENERAL LOGO ON DOOR THAT READS: "UNIT OF DOCUMENTATION AND ANALYSIS" WOMEN PROTESTING, CHANTING: "NOT ONE MORE!" BANNERS, DEPICTING PICTURES FROM OTHER PROTESTS, BEING HELD UP CLOSE-UP OF ONE OF THE BANNERS SHOWING RED SHOES WOMEN SHOUTING (Spanish): "JUSTICE!" PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNERS VARIOUS OF WOMEN HOLDING UP DOCUMENT DELIVERED TO ATTORNEY GENERAL, RAUL CERVANTES ANDRADE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LAWMAKER ALICIA BARRIENTOS OF THE LEFTIST NATIONAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT (MORENA), SAYING: "We're worried. That is why we're here, fighting and saying: 'Enough is enough! Justice now! Do something now! Please become aware of the issue, Attorney General, President, (Mexico City) Mayor." WOMEN HOLDING UP BANNERS "NOT ONE MORE" BANNER BEING HELD UP WOMEN AND BARRIENTOS PROTESTING WOMAN CRYING DURING PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ACTIVIST, MARTA AVALOS, SAYING: "(We're protesting) Because of the lack of attention and follow-up they (authorities) give to femicides in the country. Because the government does not support us. They give us false figures and we want them to take into account all the disappearances, homicides and punish them, reaching the final consequences." VARIOUS OF CANDLES, CROSSES AND PETALS LEFT ON GROUND VARIOUS OF WOMEN SHOUTING SLOGANS OUTSIDE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE LOGO OUTSIDE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
- Embargoed: 25th July 2017 19:36
- Keywords: Crime femicides protest Mexico City Attorney General's office
- Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0016P9YBLV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Members of civil and political organisations took part in a demonstration against femicides and violence against women in the country outside the Attorney General's Office (PGR) in Mexico City on Tuesday (July 11).
Led by lawmaker Alicia Barrientos of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, protesters delivered a letter directed at Mexico's Attorney General Raul Cervantes Andrade. Dozens of activists held up banners and chanted: "Not one more" and "Justice!"
In the letter, they said that in spite of demanding action from authorities to stop and investigate femicides, various sources have confirmed the number of victims are rising with crimes becoming even more brutal than before.
According to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, seven women are murdered each day in Mexico yet only about a quarter of cases were investigated by authorities. Less than two percent led to sentencing. Activists accuse authorities and the media of not taking femicide seriously in the country, often dubbing such incidents as a "crime of passion."
Since 2007, Mexico has approved a number of laws and set up institutions to safeguard women from discrimination and violence, but they are not being used effectively, report human rights experts. Critics say corruption and incompetence are rampant in under-funded police forces across Mexico. Families routinely complain that police show little interest in the cases of missing women. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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