Thousands of women protest feminicide and violence in Mexico
In Mexico thousands of women took to the streets to protest against feminicide. According to official figures 5 women get killed in Mexico every day, and 60% of women suffers violence.
Thousands of women took to the streets in Mexico to protest the widespread murder of women and violence, after the corpse of female student Mara Fernanda Castilla was discovered weeks after she went missing in the city of Puebla early September.
Thousands of women showed up in the mass rallies held in different cities throughout Mexico on Sunday.
With banners reading “We do not want chauvinistic male violence” and “Death cannot be remedied”, the women chanted slogans "My body, my decision" and "We want to be free at work, school and home".
According to the National Statistics Studies and Geography Institute of Mexico, every day 5 women are killed in the country and more than 60% of the country's women aged above 15 suffers violence.
