Femicide Nations
Title: World News #67 – Femicide Nations
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
Articles
“Demonstrators gathered outside the motel on Monday night for the latest in a series of rallies demanding justice for Debanhi Susana Escobar Bazaldúa, whose disappearance and apparent murder have rekindled devastating memories of a wave of killings in the border city of Ciudad Juárez two decades ago.
“Femicide nation,” read one of dozens of handmade placards left outside at a shrine remembering the 18-year-old law student.
“We are destroyed inside,” the victim’s father, Mario Escobar, told journalists on Saturday as his daughter was laid to rest at a hilltop cemetery in northern Mexico.
Mystery still surrounds what happened to Escobar, a budding lawyer who vanished after leaving a party in the early hours of Saturday 9 April and whose corpse was only found last Thursday, 13 days later.
But her case – the latest in a string of gender-related killings and disappearances of young women this year – has scandalized Mexico. At least 52 women have been reported missing in Nuevo León this year, the majority in or around the capital, Monterrey.”
– The Guardian, ‘Femicide nation’: murder of young woman casts spotlight on Mexico’s gender violence crisis.
“The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) released 2021 numbers documenting the killings of 173 women and girls, primarily at the hands of men, on March 7. Since 2018, the CFOJA has documented the violent deaths of 700 women and girls, at least 90 per cent of which have been killed by men. This number includes 37 women and girls already killed in the first two months of 2022.
International Women’s Day on March 8 has as its 2022 campaign theme #BreakTheBias which is meant to help us imagine a gender equal world – “a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination.” For the prevention of femicide, this would also be a world free of misogyny. While there is no legal definition, simply put, misogyny is the “dislike or hatred of, aversion to, or prejudice against women” and, as such, a major obstacle to a gender-equal world.
Despite efforts to bring a visible and national focus to femicide in Canada, society, including our political and social leaders, ignores misogyny as an everyday reality for women and girls and an underlying motivation for many (and likely most) of their killings. Members of the public largely remain unaware that one woman or girl is killed every other day somewhere in our country. The word “femicide” is not commonly used in our everyday conversations or in the media coverage of these killings.”
– Policy Options, When will Canada say enough is enough when it comes to femicide?.
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