Gender-Based Institutional Violence against Women: Paradigmatic Cases in the Mexican State

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the dimensions of gender-based institutional violence against women —manifested as systemic sexual feminicide and sexual torture– in paradigmatic cases of gender-based violence against women in Mexico that have been reviewed by the Inter-American Human Rights System.

Keywords

• violencia institucional
• violencias por razón de género contra las mujeres
• perspectiva de género
• derechos humanos