In an effort to draw attention to the issue of domestic violence that plagues their country, dozens of women have come to Mexico's Interior Ministry to protest.

On Monday, a group including activists and public officials placed themselves on the ground in imitation of a crime scene, according to Al-Jazerra.

The crowd chanted the phrase: "Gender alert in the State of Mexico," a reference to the recent "gender alert" initiative set up by the city of Ciudad Juarez to help victims of domestic violence. The demonstrators called for similar "gender alert" mechanisms in all municipalities across the 31 states of Mexico.

Violence directed at women is a notorious concern in Mexico, a country that the United Nations has ranked among the world’s 20 worst nations regarding female targeted violence. The National Citizen Femicide Observatory has stated that over 2,300 women have been killed in the State of Mexico over the course of the last nine years.

Andalusia Knoll, a journalist who routinely reports on violence against women in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, spoke to HuffPost Live back in January, saying “The majority of femicide cases in Mexico … [the victims] are killed often by their boyfriends, by their father-in-laws, by their ex-husbands or by their husbands.”

“There is a total level of impunity,” Knoll explained, “Other men know that they can kill women and nothing will happen to them.”

Congresswoman Xochitl Arzola Vargas, whom Al-Jazeera reported had joined the protesters on Monday, called the State of Mexico the most violent state for women in the entire country. "In Ecatepec district, for example, the figures surpass the numbers that for a long time made Ciudad Juarez, the 'femicide city,'” said Vargas.

Images of the protest can be seen on the congresswoman's Twitter account.