Mexico takes action to combat sexual abuse after president publicly groped

The fact that even the president could face such an assault brought national visibility to an issue that affects millions of Mexican women every day.

According to the country’s national statistics agency, seven out of 10 Mexican women and girls aged 15 and up had experienced at least one incident of violence in their lifetime, including psychological or sexual abuse. So far this year, 25,000 complaints of sexual harassment have been filed in Mexico nationwide.

Such instances of abuse often lead to greater violence: In Mexico, an average of 10 women are murdered every day, while in just the first six months of this year, more than 500 women were killed because of their gender in a crime known as femicide.

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