Giving Compass' Take:

• As femicide in Mexico increases, more women are protesting against gender-based violence and justice for female victims. 

• How are can donors help support youth-led movements against femicide? 

• Read about femicide in other countries. 

Millions of women in Mexico are expected to skip school, work and social activities on Monday in a 24-hour strike against gender-based violence and impunity for perpetrators.

"This is a call for women to disappear for one day," Estrella Nunez, a Mexican psychologist, told Al Jazeera before Monday's action, the first all-women labour strike in the country's history.

"In a country that has done little to resolve the femicides that afflict us, the disappearances, and the violence that affects us every day, we want society to resent our absence," Nunez said.

The strike comes amid increasing outrage against the prevalence of violence against women and what feminist groups say is inaction by the government and authorities.

The number of femicides jumped more than 137 percent over the past five years, according to Mexican government statistics. An average of 10 women were killed a day in 2019. More than 40 percent of women who were victims of violence knew their perpetrator, Reuters news agency reported.

In the first month of 2020 alone, 320 women were murdered, Mexican authorities said. Seventy-three of those killings were recorded as femicides.

"In Mexico, the violence keeps spreading, today there is no state in the country that is safe for a woman to live," Nunez said.

In a country where the justice system is plagued by inefficiency and corruption, only one in 10 murders are solved.

"The violence keeps increasing because it's possible," said Andrea Lorena Camacho, an accountant in Mexico City.

"In Mexico, nothing happens, and as long as there are no consequences, it will continue growing," she told Al Jazeera.

Read the full article about striking against femicides by Elizabeth Melimopoulos at Aljazeera.