brutal gang rape/ muder of 16yr old unites protests latin A

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www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/niunamenos-how-a-schoolgirls-brutal-gang-rape-and-murder-united/

Latin America has a serious problem with violence against women. And according to the UN, it’s getting worse.

This week, tens of thousands of women took to the streets in cities across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guatemala and Mexico, wearing black and carrying signs emblazoned with the words “Machismo kills” and “Ni Una Menos” (Not One Woman Less)”.

The region-wide protests were in response to the fatal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

On October 8, Lucia Pérez was kidnapped, drugged and gang raped with such violence that she died of internal injuries. Prosecutor María Isabel Sánchez described the horrific assault as “an act of inhuman sexual aggression”.

The attack has caused a wave of fury in a region where 98 per cent of female murders still go unpunished and where UN Women regional director for the Americas and the Caribbean Luiza Caravalho has warned that violence against women is on the rise""""".



this is so true""" When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Put a bit differently, old orders tend to go out not with a whimper, but a bang.”""

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and excellent article...one can only wish these women well in their fight the same with the Indian women....but progress the leglislation needed which of course is in the hands of men is very slow
and the schools should be playing their part in getting through to the children especially the boys of what is acceptable behaviour toward women and girls


"""""She said: “This violence is trying to teach us a lesson, it wants to put us back in a traditional role into which we don’t fit any more.”

Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge, agrees. He describes the latest surge in violence against women as the result of long-standing male privilege being thrown into crisis by societal and legislative changes.

“‘When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Put a bit differently, old orders tend to go out not with a whimper, but a bang.”

Indeed, the scenes across Latin America are reminiscent of those in India, following the 2012 fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi - which sparked widespread demonstrations.""""