World News for Students of English

13-03-2020 07:00

On Monday, Mexican women protested against femicide after several violent murders of women. They protested by staying at home from work and school.

There are twenty-one million women who work in Mexico, so their absence can cost the government $300 million.

However, the government, universities, and some companies supported the protest. It was part of International Women’s Day in Mexico, in which eighty-thousand people protested against violence against women.

In 2019 in Mexico, an average of 10 women a day were killed, and reports say that 25% of those women died in the home.

Difficult words: femicide (the murder of women or girls), absence (when someone is gone), average (a number in the middle of other numbers).

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