Tiktok's influential shooting scene: Mexican females ramp up? |Women's Rights News

Valeria Marquez, a 23-year-old Mexican influencer, was shot dead during a live broadcast on Tuesday.

Max, who has more than 113,000 followers on the platform, broadcasted to the audience when the attack occurred.

According to a statement from the Jalisco State Attorney’s Office, an investigation is under the Women’s Rules, and the case applies to women’s deaths due to gender.

What is female?

Female refers to gender-related killings targeting women and girls. Women are on the rise worldwide, according to the latest reports from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women.

In 2023, a woman was intentionally killed by her partner or family every 10 minutes.

Of the 85,000 women and girls killed worldwide in 2023, 60% (51,000) were murdered by an intimate partner or family member.

How common are women in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Honduras has the highest rate of women, with deaths per 100,000 women in 2023, followed by the Dominican Republic (2.4 per 100,000) and Brazil (1.4 per 100,000).

Mexico and Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia have the fourth highest female rate in Latin America and the Caribbean, which were killed 1.3 times per 100,000 women in 2023.

In terms of absolute murder, Brazil has the highest number of women cases, with 1,463 women being murdered. The second is Mexico, which killed 852 women in 2023 for women. Honduras has the third highest number, with 380 female cases.

Mexican women are on the rise

Despite some volatility over the years, the country's female rate is rising nationwide.

In Mexico, this has become a major problem, with recorded cases rising dramatically over the past decade. In 2015, women accounted for 19.8% of women’s murder. By 2024, this proportion has increased to 24.2%.

In 2015, women in Mexico were 0.7 per 100,000 women, according to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNCLAC). In 2023, this number is now 1.3 per 100,000 women, although that is slightly lower than the 1.6 peak in 2021. Gender-based violence against women has grown globally during the 2019 pandemic, and Mexico is no exception.

Experts say that while UNCLAC statistics show that the rate of Mexican women has declined in the past three years, this remains a clear and often silent issue due to underreporting.

According to a national survey on family relations dynamics in Mexico, about 85% of women 15 years of age and older who have suffered physical or sexual violence have not filed a complaint.

Where is Mexico the worst speed for women?

Max's killing happened days before another woman, the mayoral candidate in Veracruz, was also shot while living with three other people.

According to the Mexico National System of Public Safety (SNSP), the national women’s rate in 2024 is 1.18 per 100,000 people.

Morelos, in southern central Mexico, has the highest women’s rate, with 4.7 women murdered per 100,000 women followed by Chihuahua (per 100,000 per 100,000) and Tabasco (2.22 per 100,000).

In Jalisco State, where Marquez was killed, the women rate was 0.63 per 100,000 people in 2024.

According to data consulting firm Tresearch, Jalisco homicides ranked sixth among 32 Mexico states, including Mexico City, where 906 states have been recorded since President Claudia Sheinbaum's tenure in October 2024.