In Mexico's northeastern state of Nuevo León, young feminists are creating their own safe spaces to share, bond and mobilize, and demand an end to the country's pervasive gender-based violence.
and disappeared, they show up not only to denounce gender-based violence but to find one another, forge relationships, and create new forms of organizing and activism.
Hundreds of women hold their glowing cellphones to honor murdered women during a demonstration against femicides in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on February 21, 2020. Through citizen participation, previous generations promoted a thoughtful and combative civil society committed to developing gender equality in democracy building, against a political background in which the ruling party had been in power for more than 70 years.
Early Valentine’s Day morning, protesters in Mexico City sprayed blood-red paint and graffiti on the National Palace and interrupted President Andres Manuel López Obrador’s daily morning press conference to demand an end to gender-based violence.
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