Local news update
Mexico civil rights
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Freedom of the press
Domestic Violence
The rate of domestic violence against women in Mexican marital relationships varies at between 30 and 60 percent of relationships.
As of 2014, Mexico has the 16th highest rate of homicides committed against women in the world. This rate has been on the rise since 2007.
Gender violence is more prevalent in regions along the Mexico-US border and in areas of high drug trading activity and drug violence.
According to the 2013 Human Rights Watch, many women do not seek out legal redress after being victims of domestic violence and sexual assault because "the severity of punishments for some sexual offenses contingent on the "chastity" of the victim" and "those who do report them are generally met with suspicion, apathy, and disrespect.
voting rights
Voting Rights, In mid-June, Mexico's major political parties, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party the left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party and the conservative National Action Party agreed to permit Mexican citizens living outside the country to vote in the next Presidential election, scheduled for 2000. There are at least 7 million Mexican nationals living in the US, and Mexicans abroad are expected to cast 1 to 5 million votes--there were 35 million votes cast in the 1994 Mexican Presidential election. It is not yet clear how Mexicans in the US would vote. US citizens abroad mail ballots to the US--some 2 million ballots were mailed to the US in 1992. However, Mexico's opposition parties oppose mail ballots, fearing fraud. How would US citizens react to Mexican candidates campaigning for votes in California and other places where Mexican nationals live? Some fear that Mexican flags would increase anti-Mexican sentiment in the US.