Hundreds of thousands of women march in Latin America’s biggest cities for InternationalWomensDay, with anger over inequality, femicide and strict abortion controls boiling over into sporadic violence More IWD2020 coverage:
SANTIAGO/MEXICO CITY - Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America’s biggest cities flocked to the streets for International Women’s Day on Sunday, with anger over inequality, femicide and strict abortion controls boiling over into sporadic violence.
“We are a generation of women that has woken up. We are not afraid to speak out and struggle,” protester Valentina Navarro, 21, told Reuters while marching in Santiago. She and a group of friends accompanying her had green bandannas around their necks, a symbol of support for abortion rights. In Mexico’s capital, police and protest groups said up to 80,000 people gathered, including young girls and women in wheelchairs, for a march in which they hoisted signs and shouted chants against femicides, which have more than doubled over the last five years.
“I fought and fought and then I ran,” she said. “I want more security, I want me and my daughters to always leave the house and know we’re going to return home.” Some women said they felt compelled to attend their first march to act as voices for women who have been killed, and because they felt the government didn’t grasp the gravity of the problem.
Protesters also targeted violence against women in Brazil, where four women were killed a day in 2019, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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