In the last six years in Mexico almost 200,000 persons have been kidnapped and assassinated by the drug cartels, and their bodies buried at unknown places. Brave women: mothers, sisters, daughters and even grandmothers have organized themselves to look for the places where their beloved "desaparecidos" (the missing ones) relatives ended. They look for truth, justice, repair and memory, call themselves "Madres Buscadoras" (Searching Mothers) and they defy not only to the criminals, but even to the Mexican government, that doesn't want to know anything about more killings or of these search groups that make the work that the police doesn't do. They use as a motto the phrase "Hasta encontrarte" (Until I find you). These women are always at great risk digging in the clandestine pits spread all over the country, and many of them are killed on the spot at hands of the criminal organizations. Since they do the task that nobody wants to do, they deserve at least the official PROTECTION of our authorities, who doesn't help them because they would prefer these groups would not make any more findings. My poster makes some obvious references to Mexican images and colors, besides the prickly pear cactus is very representative of our semi-desert landscape, just where these women make most of their search and findings.
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Stop killing women
According to UN Women, 2022 was the year in which the most women were intentionally murdered to date: nearly 89,000. Of these ‘Around 48,800 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members (including fathers, mothers, uncles and brothers). This means that, on average, more than 133 women or girls are killed every day by someone in their own family.’
If it’s not bad enough that femicide is increasing, the real statistic is probably much higher: ‘for roughly four in ten intentional murders of women and girls, there is not enough information to identify them as gender-related killings because of national variation in criminal justice recording and investigation practices’.
This must change. So this year, we want to ask your help in drawing attention to all forms of violence against women: for the world to stop killing women.
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