Women to march to Posadas to denounce feminicide and demand national urgency for gender-based violence

The citizen appeal in which the "purple color" will prevail has been launched for this Tuesday, from 17h, at Miter Av. Mast. "It addresses all women who wish to join in the expression of the rejection of gender-based violence and put an end to indifference to this problem," he said. Valentina Swiderski, member of the organization of the independent feminist movement. They will go peacefully to Plaza 9 de Julio, where they will close with a message to the company.

"The women of Misiones must add their voice to the rejection of feminicides in the country," he said. Online missions the young Valentina Swiderski, who, together with Candela Lucero, María Irala are part of the "Transversal Women's Movement" and seek to make sense of the "purple scarves" that represent the feminist struggle and have mobilized to join the support of young women, adolescent girls and other similar movements women working for the same initiative, to clarify the public and the public appeal in which they will express their "repudiation" accompanied by a march to be held this Tuesday, February 5 at Posadas.

The purpose of the call is to raise the voice of women's membership of the province to the "national emergency for gender-based violence" declaration demand that is under way in Buenos Aires and in different provinces of the country, for the murders of women, the revision of the legislation concerning these problems, the state support for women victims of gender-based violence and the repudiation of feminicide that has occurred so far this year, exceeding 25 cases and constituting a tragic statistic in Argentina.

The rally, scheduled for Tuesday, will be held at 5 pm on the Miter Avenue Mast, under the slogan of walking peacefully and without any acts of violence, until the 9 de Julio Plaza, which will close by its adherence to the National Emergency Declaration Request. "The modalities of the march were agreed at our first meeting last week at Plaza 9 de Julio, which was attended by many women and was an enriching gathering. we have noticed the interest of many women who do not have space to represent them.We decided to organize the walk because we can not be indifferent to what is going on happening in the country, we debated the fact that we did not want it and the first thing to do was to agree that it was necessary to say enough to all kinds of expression with violence.Our march is peaceful what we want is that the voice of the women of Misiones be heard in the repudiation of feminicides, "explained the young woman.

Swiderski is 19 years old, he comes from the posada, but studies at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). With other compañeras, they have noticed in recent months in Posadas that a women's movement representing unheard voices was needed. "On our first call, which took place on Wednesday at the Plaza, on July 9, many girls were confronted with experiences of abuse, harbadment and gender-based violence. that the march will add much more, then we will see the steps to follow up to 8M (March 8, International Women's Day) organized to help in one way or another these women who, today, do not have no space for retention "He advanced.

He proposed that the call aims at women's participation because "we must learn that it is we who must go out and make our voices heard to defend our rights, and that at this stage of the process, we must be united as women … I have fathers, brothers, cousins, friends that I love, like all of us, this is not something against the. man we do not call to walk, but we seek to start giving examples that we, women, have to go out to defend ourselves too, "said the organizer.

A women's movement has called for an event to be held on Tuesday to strengthen national demand for an urgent response to the fight against feminicides in the country and the problem of gender-based violence. "We are facing a national emergency and we are all responsible for it. That's why we are calling to join us this Tuesday at 5 pm to participate in a repudiation march of the more than 26 tragic femicides that occurred in January, only at the beginning of the year. We can not remain indifferent, "he concluded.

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