MEXICO CITY.- From January to August 2024, there were victim of femicide 54 girls and adolescents between 0 and 17 yearswhich represented an increase compared to the 46 femicides of adolescent girls and women that were recorded in the same months of 2023, according to official data processed by the Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico (my refusal).
Regarding the International Day of the Girlwhich is commemorated this Friday, the civil organization led by Tania Ramírez, released the figures of the biggest problems that afflict girls in the national territory.
In Mexico, there are 18.9 million girls and adolescents between 0 and 17 years of age, of which 8.4 million face extreme poverty.
According to Redim, in Mexico 339 women between 0 and 17 years old died from homicide from January to August 2024, of which 74 died from intentional homicide.
Last year, were treated in hospitals from Mexico 18 thousand 93 women from 1 to 17 years old for family violence. This corresponded to 87.9% of victims of family violence in that age range nationwide.
In 2023, 9,045 women between the ages of 1 and 17 were also treated in hospitals in Mexico for sexual violence. This corresponded to 92.3% of victims of sexual violence in that age range nationwide.
Girls from Mexico, with educational backwardness and married at an early age
It stands out that in 2022, 10.8% of women between 3 and 17 years of age in Mexico were educationally backward in 2022, which corresponded to 1.7 million adolescent girls and women. At the national level, the percentage of women aged 3 to 17 with educational lag during 2022 was 1.6 points lower than that of men of the same age (12.4%).
It states that at the national level, 237.2 thousand women between 12 and 17 years old were married or in a union in 2020, which is 3.7% of women in that age range, being 2.5 points higher than that of men married or in a union. age (1.2%).
In 2020, almost one in 13 indigenous women aged 12 to 17 in Mexico lived married or in a union in 2020 (7.5%); This corresponded to 27.8 thousand indigenous adolescent women.
The Network’s figures also specify that during 2023, 101,147 births to mothers between 10 and 17 years old were registered in Mexico. This corresponded to 1.1 per 100 women in that age range.
child labor
Regarding child labor, it reveals that in 2022 the national population of women between 5 and 17 years old who worked was 1.5 million.
Las Girls in Mexico live a painful reality because there are no public policies that take care of this population sector and there is a need for courts specialized in child crimes, says Paulina Amozurrutia, national director of the civil organization Unión Mujer.
“That specialized prosecutors be created to judge issues involving minors and, above all, issues of sexual crimes and socio-emotional programs for girls on gender issues, psychological, emotional and sexual care,” he emphasizes.
He maintains that Mexico is third in child sexual violenceonly after Cambodia and Thailand. In addition to being the first place in the production of child pornography.
He added that currently, every day more girls are sexually violated in their family environment. According to the most recent report of Save the Childrenthe average age is 11 years, 8 out of 10 perpetrators are in the family and 7 out of 10 had no criminal record.
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