The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday to combat violence against women in Mexico, where the death of 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar sparked a wave of outrage.
According to the executive secretariat of the national public security system, from January to March 2022 there were 229 femicides at the national level, especially in the states of Mexico, Veracruz and Nuevo León, where this young woman was recently found dead.
the corpse of Debanhi was found on April 21 at the bottom of a motel water tank, near the highway to Nuevo Laredo, on the border with the United States.
His case aroused unusual interest in the country and even crossed borders, from Peru to the United States.
The National Search Commission It also accounts for 24,600 women reported missing so far this year and, according to official data, 2,287 rapes and more than 50,000 cases of domestic or conjugal violence have been recorded.
The gender violence forms part “of a continuous pattern that derives from historical and structural discrimination, rooted in the patriarchal and sexist culture of the societies of the region that conditions women, girls, and adolescents under stereotyped notions of inferiority,” condemns the IACHR in a release.
The government must act “to prevent, investigate and punish” these events “by all appropriate means and without delay” and take measures so that they are not repeated, adds this autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS) that promotes human rights.
In 2021 alone, there were 3,751 murders of women in the country, of which 1,004 have been classified as femicides, according to official sources.
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