Moms protest Mexico's missing on Mother's Day
STORY: ::Heartbroken relatives draw attention to Mexico's
missing children on the nation's Mother's Day
::Since 1962, over 110,000 people have
disappeared without trace in Mexico
::May 10, 2024
:: Mexico City, Mexico
:: Edith Olivares, Executive Director, Amnesty International Mexico
"More than 90% of those searching for disappeared persons are women, mothers, sisters, and daughters. They are facing disappearance, murder, attacks, and threats, and they are also facing state violence. Unfortunately, they are coming on these marches, as they have been doing for several years, to demand to be heard and listened to by the authorities."
The protesters, who began their march below the Mexican capital's Monument to the Mother, held up portraits of their missing children and chanted: "Where are they? Where are our children?"
May 10 marks the date to celebrate Mother’s Day across most Mexican calendars; for many, it is a day of outrage for those lost to increasing violence and lack of help from the Mexican authorities.
Edith Olivares, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mexico, remarks that many relatives of disappeared persons face disappearance, murder and attacks themselves, and are also victims of state violence.
