Mexico: Systematic Violence Against Women Due to 98% Impunity Rate

For the past 15 years women and men have taken to the streets on November 25 to denounce Mexico’s ever-growing crisis of violence against women. Between 2013 and 2014, seven women were killed a day in the country. While measures such as gender alerts mandating investigations into violence have occasionally been decreed, activists say they have done little to resolve the problem. Most stress that the 98% impunity rate in cases of gender violence and femicides is the root cause of systematic violence, while other say the defining factors are economic inequalities provoked by public policies. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City for teleSUR