The Feminist Observatory against the Violence Against the Women of Chiapas, in its latest statistical report: “La cuenta que no nos cierra,” (The account that does not close), found 197 violent deaths of women in 2024; at least 63 appear to be femicides.
The count, just for the month of December, is one of 14 violent deaths of women, within these 14 are observed: 7 homicides, 2 femicides, 1 possible femicide, 4 accidents and 2 attempted femicides.
Again, the highest incidence of sexual violence is found in the demographic of girls and adolescents; the counts of cases in general, occurred first in the Metropolitan region and the Soconusco region with 4 cases each, followed by the Altos-Tsotsil region with 3 cases.
Cases of domestic violence were published mainly in the Northern region with 4 cases, followed by the Mayan (Lacandon jungle) region with 2 cases. In terms of reports of missing women and girls, there are a total of 43 reports, 10 of which are still unaccounted for.
The objective of the figures clarifies the organization, they are part of the information collected and systematized by the Feminist Observatory, which have been obtained from the review of newspapers that are online. Therefore, the information does not include official figures from state authorities; on the contrary, it is part of the feminist work that the Observatory carries out autonomously and free of charge, as a contribution from the citizen’s struggle against violence against women in Chiapas.
In its registry, the Observatory compiled 150 violent deaths in 2016; in 2017, 218; 2018, 164; 2019, 200; 2020, 117; 2021, 203; 2022, 172 and 190 for 2023. All this, gives a total of 1,414 violent deaths plus the 194 of the last year, amounting to 1608.
Original text by Andrés Domínguez in Chiapas Paralelo on February 25th, 2025.
Photo Montserrat Méndez.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.