In Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, and other Mexican cities, women held up pink crosses with the slogan “Ni una mas” (Not one more) in protest.
In advance of the announced women’s march and protest, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered the National Palace and the Palace of Fine Arts to be surrounded by barriers, supposedly to protect the buildings from “vandalism.” In response, women painted the names of hundreds of victims of femicides on the barrier surrounding the National Palace to dramatize the culture of violence against women and call for national action to protect women. At the same time, there is a heightened awareness of violence against women, and a growing global movement to assert women’s power and nonviolently demonstrate and demand that women’s fundamental human rights to dignity, safety, agency, freedom and equal treatment be respected and upheld.įor example, to honor this important day, women have peacefully taken to the streets of Mexico City to protest the government’s inaction against hundreds of femicides, murders of women because of their gender. Tragically, we live in a world where one out of every three women have experienced physical or sexual violence, and 200 million women have been victims of forced genital mutilation. Today on International Women’s Day we honor and recognize the struggle of women across the world to realize the rights guaranteed to all human beings under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Antimonumenta- Ni una mas II, Wikipedia Commons, photograph by Thayne Tuason
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