Six women have disappeared in Mexico in every day so far in the year 2022.
Tania Enriquez Mierhead of the Violence and Crime Prevention Units of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC)reported that according to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, 748 women have disappeared during the current year.
Of this figure, 46% of the disappeared are concentrated in the State of Mexico, Mexico City and Morelos.
“Faced with this adverse and violent scenario that women and girls mainly experience, from this secretariat we promote various strategies that are being deployed in the national territory in the 50 municipalities with the highest incidence in gender crimes,” the official said.
In a working meeting with the Special Commission in Charge of Following Up on Cases of Feminicide of Girls and Adolescents of the Chamber of Senators, Tania Enríquez Mier explained that the SSPC works in the 32 state tables and 264 regional coordinations for the construction of peace and security with all the federal, state and municipal authorities in the review and analysis of the investigation folders of femicide crimes to eliminate impunity and reduce the backlog in access to justice.
According to data from the secretariat, in 2020 they opened 949 research folders for the crime of femicide.
During 2021, 977 folders were initiated, of which 12% correspond to children under 18 years of age and that the figure increased compared to the previous year, although the crime of femicide had a drop of 29% last March, in relation to August 2021 when the historical maximum was reached.
“However, we know that we have to redouble our efforts and not let our guard down.”
For her part, Fabiola Alanís Sámano, national commissioner to prevent and eradicate violence against women, reported that in one of every four municipalities in the country (642 in total) a gender alert has already been decreed, in which 578 measures are applied. of prevention, security and access to justice, and that in 39 of the 50 municipalities considered to be of priority attention due to the high crime rates they register, said alert is also decreed.
In the next few days, he announced, the gender violence alert will have to be decreed in Guanajuato, as recommended by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH).
Last year, it ended, 277 cases of violent deaths of girls and adolescents were registered, of which 111 were classified as femicides and 166 as intentional homicides.