User:TypistMonkey/Femicides in the State of Mexico
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Femicides in Mexico is a technical-legal concept that refers to the murders committed against women for reasons of gender inside of the territory of the State of Mexico, one of the 32 federal entities in the Republic of Mexico.[note 1] The concept of femicide has a penal scope in Mexico.
Although the case of the Femicides in Juárez City is the most well known on the international level, the number of murders of Mexican women is far greater. Various social organizations presented a request of a Gender Alert in the Mexican territory for this cause, but it was rejected in 2011 at the meeting of the National System to Prevent, Respond, Punish, and Eradicate Violence Against Women, so the representatives of the PRI Party supported the argument of the Mexican State Council of Women and Social Welfare that it was a strategy to affect the image of Enrique Peña Nieto, PRI governor, in view of the Mexican Federal election of 2012.