Migrant Women Confront and Resist Sexual Assault on Journey to the United States, Nidia Bautista, globalvoices.org, 20/06/2016

"To reach the United States, many Central American women migrants cross Mexico, where feminicide and the disappearance of women have reached alarmingly high levels. Numerous actors and institutions are responsible for the violence against women and migrants: government officials, smugglers, and drug traffickers, as well as historical, political and socioeconomic factors such as inequality, corruption, anti-immigrant policies, poverty, and increased border militarization. According to some inv..