1,000 "Women in Black" marched. (Worth Noting).* Coinciding co·in·cide intr.v. co·in·cid·ed, co·in·cid·ing, co·in·cides 1. To occupy the same relative position or the same area in space. 2. To happen at the same time or during the same period. 3. with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. On December 17 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). , more than 1,000 "Women in Black" marched through Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi on November 25, 2002, demanding justice for the more than 300 young girls and women who have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since 1993. Mexican authorities have been unable to identify the killers or establish a motive in these murders, although drugs and sex slavery slavery, institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services. is suspect. Mexico's First Lady Martha Sahagun de Fox has called the killings the country's most outrageous example of violence against women. |
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