TV News LIES

Thursday, May 14th

Last update07:10:39 AM GMT

You are here News Human Rights Where thousands of women vanish every year without a trace

Where thousands of women vanish every year without a trace

E-mail Print PDF

Where women vanish Thousands of women and girls disappear in Mexico every year - many are never seen alive again. When one couple realised their daughter was missing, they knew they didn't have long to find her.

Elizabeth realised something was terribly wrong within 15 minutes of her teenage daughter, Karen, disappearing.

"I just knew it, I had an anguish that I'd never felt before. I searched the streets, called friends and family, but no-one had seen her," she says.

"She'd gone to the public toilets with nothing - no money, no mobile phone, no clothes… We thought she'd been kidnapped."

Karen disappeared in April 2013 when she was 14 - one of thousands of girls to have gone missing in recent years in Mexico state - a sprawling administrative region which wraps around the capital, Mexico City.

A staggering 1,238 women and girls were reported missing in the state in 2011 and 2012 - the most recent figures available. Of these, 53% were girls under the age of 17.

No-one knows how many have been found dead or alive, or are still missing. This is the most dangerous Mexican state to be a woman - at least 2,228 were murdered here in the past decade.

More...


Most Recent Related Stories...


Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank

Palestinians lose more landMustafa Badaha drove along the edge of his land, past rows of olive trees he could...

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched

Alabama womn gave birth on prison floorAn Alabama woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her civil rights and those of...

Under rubble and rain, Gaza women try to save rare books in centuries-old library

Gaza woman tries to save rare booksRaneem Mousa lifts a heavy volume from a shattered shelf inside the centuries-old library of Gaza’s...

New York Times article details brutal rape of Palestinians. Israel calls it 'blood libel'

Settlers tour of W BankMounted by dogs, penetrated by carrots, and rectums torn by batons. These are just some of the...
 
America's # 1 Enemy
Tee Shirt
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
TVNL Tee Shirt
 
TVNL TOTE BAG
Conserve our Planet
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
Get your 9/11 & Media
Deception Dollars
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
The Loaded Deck
The First & the Best!
The Media & Bush Admin Exposed!