Mexico's Crisis of Enforced Disappearances Hits Jalisco Women Hard teleSUR
go to original April 12, 2016

A gender crisis that sees four women forcibly disappeared every month in the western Mexican state of Jalisco has prompted authorities to launch a new initiative to immediately begin searching for missing women and girls in the state, local media reported Monday.

The new plan to ensure prompt searches comes after the state declared a gender alert in February over the crisis of femicide and forcibly disappeared women and girls in at least eight of its largest municipalities.

The protocol follows in the footsteps of similar measures already introduced in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, home of the historic femicide verdict last year that saw five men sentenced to a landmark 697 years in jail for the murder of 11 women.

Meanwhile, the Mexican Senate released a report claiming that there were 136 cases of forced disappearance in the country between 2008 and 2015, putting it in the realm of countries living under civil war and extreme political violence, La Reforma reported.

But the Senate statistics pale in comparison to the number of forced disappearances reported by human rights groups. More than 27,600 people are missing in Mexico, and at least 10,000 people have been victims of enforced disappearance since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December 2012.

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