'Mexican authorities often fall back on gender norms to dismiss disappearances of women and girls. They appeal to patriarchal norms on female sexuality, blaming their disappearances on their ‘loose’ sexual behaviour, exonerating male violence by suggesting their deaths are their own fault, holding women responsible for the violence inflicted upon them.'
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'Intensifying waves of feminist protests denounce once again not only men’s violence towards women and other marginalised genders, but also the historically insufficient action of the Mexican state to end gender-based violence. Institutional responses are plagued by rampant state incompetence, lack of political will and even active resistance from government officials – signalling an entrenched patriarchal misogyny in Mexican institutions'
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www.alignplatform.org/resources/blog-icebergs-and-black-holes-femicide-mexico