Thousands of women marched in Mexico to fight gender-based violence in the country

This Saturday afternoon Thousands of women rallied to demand that the authorities set up security guards to stop feminicide, kidnapping, forced disappearances and gender-based violence. which afflicts the country.

With banners in hand where you could read "They kill us "," I was not born a woman to die for Serlo "," Stop abductions and feminicides in the CDMX " Thousands of women marched to the zocalo of the capital to sensitize society to aggression against women.

Civil organizations, feminist collectives and some men have also mobilized in different contingents to protest the problem. which has more than 133 feminicides in Mexico until now in 2019, according to data from these same institutions.

At the beginning of the walk, A minute of silence was observed in honor of murdered women throughout Mexico.

Hundreds of women dressed The purple color worked with cries like "Not one, not one less", "Live, we love you", "I want to live, not survive", "To be born a girl is not a condemnation" . They walked from the monument to the mother to reach the zocalo of the capital.

Over the past few days, messages have appeared on social networks to encourage women to take charge of the metropolitan transit system (STC). "Calmate mi amor", in which the kidnappers take the victims by the arm and try to take them by force.

According to the testimonies of the victims, men threaten women on subway platforms and when someone notices that they are being fought, the raptor starts to say things like: "calm down my love, do not do shows " and they make the witnesses believe that it's a couple fight.

Another way to make these hijackers work is take them when they leave the subway stations and forcibly download them to the vehicles never come back, although there are records that many have managed to escape.

A group of women created a virtual map to indicate metro stations where these attacks occur recurrently, warn other women of the fact.

Unsafe women walk the streets

"Irresponsibly, Public policies in this area have been reduced to a discourse and not to actual implementation, which has a positive impact on the lives of Mexican women, "said the OCNF, 43 civil society organizations in 23 states of the country.

In a statement, he reported that 18 of the 32 states, or 56% of the national territory, are officially declared in the Gender Violence Alert for Women (AVG).

The executive secretariat of the national public security system He announced that the number of femicides was 9.48 per day.