Emergency calls on violence against women spiked in Mexico in 2020
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Emergency calls related to violence against women in Mexico rose more than 30 per cent in 2020, data published last week showed, as COVID-19 lockdowns kept families stuck at home. In 2020, more than 260,000 emergency calls were made about violence against women compared to under 198,000 in the previous […]
Women seeking help from violence almost doubles in Mexico lockdown
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation The number of women and children seeking help at shelters for victims of violence has surged by more than 80 per cent in Mexico under the coronavirus lockdown, according to the country’s largest network of shelters for victims of violence. The National Network of Shelters, which includes about 69 refuges […]
Latin America shelters struggle to help women in coronavirus lockdowns
Bogota, Colombia/Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation The unassuming domestic violence shelter in the Mexican border city of Tapachula has been filled to capacity since January, and manager Elsa Simon already had to refuse three women seeking to escape abusive partners. With coronavirus lockdown measures intensifying, Simon worries she will be forced to turn away many […]
MEXICO: CUTS OR CLOSURES? SAFETY FEARS LOOM FOR WOMEN AT TRAFFICKING SHELTERS
CHRISTINE MURRAY, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Mexico…