02/19/13 – According to a study published in 2012 by the Human
Rights Department of the Ministry of the Interior (Subsecretaria
de Derechos Humanos de la Secretaría de Gobernación, SEGOB) and
the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence
against Women (Comisión Nacional para Prevenir y Erradicar la
Violencia Contra las Mujeres, Conavim), female homicides in
Mexico have increased dramatically, particularly in nine states
in Mexico: Chiapas, Chihuahua, the Federal District (Distrito
Federal, DF), Durango, Guerrero, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, and
Sonora. The National Study Concerning the Sources, Origins, and
Factors that Produce and Reproduce the Violence against Women
(Estudio Nacional sobre las Fuentes, Orígenes y Factores que
Producen y Reproducen la Violencia contra las Mujeres) was
presented to the Commission of Human Rights and Gender Equality
(Comisiones de Derechos Humanos y para la Igualdad de Género del
Senado de la República) on February 13, 2013. (To read the full
report, click here). L