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Singers fined for misogynistic songs due to “pandemic” of gender violence in Mexican city
Facebook that seven out of every 10 calls made to Chihuahua’s emergency services were related to domestic violence, mostly against women. In addition, domestic violence rates in the city have been steeply rising.He pledged in the video to donate the money collected from fining artists who break the regulations to women’s shelters or programmes to prevent violence against women and girls.“Chihuahua is one of the five municipalities in the state with a gender alert, declared due to high rates of structural violence against women,” added councillor Patricia Ulate, the head of the city commission on women, families and gender equality (via the Guardian).
