“We can now say, four and a half years later, almost at the end of this administration: the Gender Alert did serve its purpose and allowed the entire government of Mexico City and other institutions to move forward,” she said on Monday during the monthly report.
According to the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ CDMX), violent deaths of women have decreased by 35.7%, from 14 in July 2019 to nine in July 2024.
Batres said that a symbolic change has also begun with the start of the renaming of 27 streets called ‘Gustavo Díaz Ordaz’ on August 24, which will be named in honor of prominent women such as the writers Elena Garro, Elvia Carrillo Puerto and Remedios Varo, among others.
Results of the Alert for Violence against Women in CDMX:
- 1,120 kilometers of Safe Paths have been built.
- Installation of 77,351 surveillance cameras and 28,659 help buttons connected to C5.
- 28% increase in protection measures granted to women, from 5,111 per month in 2021 to 6,556 in 2024.
- Increased women’s trust in the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico City: it went from 18.8% in 2019 to 26.3% in 2023, according to INEGI data.
- More aggressors linked to proceedings, from a monthly average of 160.4 in 2019 to 284.3 in 2024 people under trial for domestic violence.
- Increase in the number of alleged femicide perpetrators charged, from 15 in 2019 to 58 in 2024.
- 196 police officers dismissed and 563 sanctioned for complaints of violence against women, prosecuted by the Specialized Gender Unit of the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City.
- 160 “Women’s Lawyers” in the Territorial Agencies and the Protection Measures Unit of the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office, who have accompanied the opening of 81,270 investigation files.
- Approval of the Olimpia Law, against sexual violence through digital means; the Ingrid Law, against the leaking of images of victims of aggression such as femicide; the Malena Law, against acid attacks, and the Vicaria Law, to defend the right of mothers to be with their children.
