Historic 36% Reduction in Daily Incidence of Femicides in Mexico, Reports the Secretariat of Women

ByEmir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia

This article by Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia originally appeared in the October 5, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. In more than a year of operation, the Women’s Line (079 option 1) has identified femicidal violence in 33 percent of the 20,000 calls that this tool has received, reported the head of the Secretariat of Women, Laura Itzel Castillo.

Participating in this Monday’s presidential mañanera, the official noted that having detected those risks “made it possible to prevent the manifestation of this form of violence.”

According to data from that agency, under this administration “there has been a historic drop” of 36 percent in the incidence of the daily average of femicides, pointed out Ingrid Gómez, Undersecretary for the Right to a Life Free of Violence, Secretariat of Women.

The line aims to protect the rights of all women in the country. To date, Secretary Castillo stated, 83 percent of the calls registered at this number correspond to care for some type of violence and 17 percent to guidance and information.

If you are experiencing violence and don’t know what to do, call 079 option 1.

Secretary of Women Laura Itzel Castillo

Meanwhile, the federal president outlined that when a woman experiences violence and calls 079 option 1, “it is not only the call per se and the person who is answering it, but it is channeled. So, the Security secretariats or the women’s institutes or secretariats of the states are asked to approach the woman to attend to her.”

She added that even if after some time the possible victim does not call, the woman is called back to find out how she is and whether she needs any type of support.

Secretary Castillo added that the federal government has established 1,001 LIBRE centers in all the states of the Republic, where 1,436,869 services have been provided to date and 656,344 people have been attended.

The total number of LIBRE centers created so far, she maintained, covers 40 percent of the country’s municipalities.

In these spaces “women strengthen their community networks and develop their leadership, they are free and nearby, where psycho-emotional support and legal advice are provided, rights training and self-training for economic autonomy are carried out, and work is done on the prevention of violence with training workshops.”

Likewise, there are so far 197,446 volunteer women registered in the Tejedoras de la Patria Network.