This part of the mural depicts an image of Campira Camorlinga Alanís, who was killed in 2016. The number can vary, but fewer than 10 percent of femicide cases are solved.Ī mural spotted in Mexico City that pays tribute to several women who were killed due to gender-based violence. The government’s repeated statements to investigate and prosecute the cases have not been borne out. And the number of killings that were investigated and classified as femicides is 1,006. Mexican officials recorded 35,558 homicides. The year 2019 was Mexico’s most violent year overall in recent recorded history. Police found her body days after news of Escamilla’s death.ĭespite a 2012 claim by a Mexican delegation to the United Nations that the country was “gaining ground” on ending femicide in the country, the numbers have since continued to climb. In a separate case, 7-year-old Fátima Cecilia Aldrighett was abducted from her school in Mexico City and later found dead in a plastic bag. One national newspaper, Pasala, ran its story of Escamilla’s death with the headline: “It was Cupid’s fault.” Photos of her body were then spread on social media and websites. Police said Escamilla’s husband confessed to the killing. Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was found stabbed in Mexico City, her body skinned and missing several organs. The Mexican government labels a killing as a femicide when there are certain “reasons” for the violence, including whether the victim suffered degrading injuries or mutilations before or after their death, if the victim’s body is displayed in a public place, or if there’s a history of violence in the family, workplace or at school against the victim.Ĭalls for widespread protests ramped up after a series of grisly killings. Photos by Cynthia Arvide (L) and Joshua Barajas (R) The one on the left cites a now-outdated statistic that, on average, 9 women are killed each day in the country. Two separate posters about femicide by Mexico City-based artist Sofia Weidner were spotted in Mexico City. But not all female murder victims are classified as femicide - that can differ in each country according to their specific legal definition. That number has risen since 2016, when official government figures put the number at eight per day. On average, 10 women and girls are killed each day in Mexico, according to an oft-cited statistic. That change was meant to lead to tougher penalties and a greater support system for victims. Mexico officially made “femicides” - the killings of women because of their gender - legally distinct from homicides in 2012. Activists hoped the action will further pressure government officials into taking action against femicide in the country. There were fewer women and girls in work places, schools, the streets and other public spaces to demonstrate what it would be like if there were no women. On Monday, nearly two months since Chauvet’s installation, Mexican activists launched a nationwide, 24-hour women’s strike, known as #UnDiaSinNosotras (A Day Without Us) on social media. The photo on the right shows Chauvet’s installation that was displayed on Grand Valley State University’s Pew Campus in March 2017. Wearing a luchador mask, artist Elina Chauvet (L) poses for a photo amid the hundreds of pairs of women’s red shoes inside Mexico City’s famous Zocalo plaza. It represents bloodshed, but also change and hope and love, according to the artist. To mark their absence, two mothers had personally painted and placed their daughters’ shoes inside the plaza.įor Chauvet, red takes on several meanings. Some of the pairs - four of them - had once belonged to women who had been victims of gender-based deadly violence. In January, the 60-year-old Mexican artist helped activists paint 300 shoes red and laid them out in pairs in an open, public place: inside Mexico City’s historic square. Especially when the women or girls who would have worn them no longer take up any space, except in the lives of their loved ones.įor more than a decade, Chauvet has staged her “Los Zapatos Rojos” installation in cities around the world. They’re not there to see the sights, but to take up space. Not just one pair, but hundreds - red boots, red heels, red toddler shoes. They’ve been in Milan, Italy, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Editor’s note: This story contains graphic details of violence.Įlina Chauvet’s red shoes are worldly.
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