Violence against women in Mexico violence against women or gender violence, which the UN described in 1979 as "a mechanism of domination, control, oppression, and power over women." Amnesty International estimates that there have been around 34,000 female homicides in Mexico between 1986 and 2009. According to the National Citizen Observatory on Femicide, only 49 percent of the 800 cases of women killed in Mexico between June and July 2017 were investigated as femicide. One activist, Natalia Reyes, reported that only 8 percent of femicides in Mexico are punished. Additionally, in 2012, Mexico was ranked as the 16th country in the world with the highest
Women in Sikhism from woman are born leaders and kings." The Sikh Faith from its inception has upheld the equality for and dignity of women. Siri Guru Nanak Sahib, the founding Guru of the Sikh Faith, emphasized the dignity of women in a way that was ahead of his time. Siri Guru Nanak Sahib stated:“From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to a woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad from whom kings