Volume 6, Issue 1, 2025, pp. 68-92

ABSTRACT: Although the Mexican government often espouses the highest aims and principles when it comes to gender-specific issues that affect its female population, it also tolerates the most serious form of femicide rather than providing women and girls with effective protection. Its failure to prevent and avoid repetition of femicide is inexcusable, though. Mexico should fulfill its international obligations, which have been delineated by declarations and conventions on human rights (international and regional), case law, constitutional provisions, ethical principles. The author argues that the Mexican government both should and can fulfill its obligations, including the ones that result from femicide rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. There is no basis, empirically or otherwise, for the reasons Mexico has presented to try to circumvent or even deny its responsibility. With a newly elected female President of the country, the author of this essay hopes to see a change of course in favor of compliance and justice for vulnerable stakeholders.