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Latin America saw its streets painted green and purple this Tuesday (08.03.2022) during protests demanding gender violence, decriminalization of abortion, fair wages and an end to femicides, among others. The following is a review of how International Women’s Day was experienced in the region. <\/p>\n
Thousands of women marched in Argentina on Tuesday to express their repudiation against sexist violence and to demand equal rights on International Women’s Day. \u201cThe debt is with us\u201d was one of the slogans in the main march that concentrated a multitude of women in front of the National Congress in the Argentine capital, where a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund is being debated. <\/p>\n
The claims emphasized the violence against women that in the first two months of this year caused 54 femicides, 63% of the cases killed by partners or ex-partners, according to statistics from the NGO <\/span>La Casa del Encuentro.<\/em><\/p>\n Hundreds of women marched in Bolivia carrying photographs of those accused or sentenced for rape, judges and prosecutors, who have freed those involved in cases of gender violence or femicides, to demand justice and denounce the \u201cdelay in the resolution of the processes\u201d.<\/p>\n The march called by the collective <\/span>Women Creating<\/em> <\/span>began at the Murillo Lighthouse in the city of El Alto and the group walked to the Departmental Court of Justice of La Paz demanding justice for all victims of male violence and that there is no longer impunity for those responsible. This mobilization took place on March 7, prior to International Women’s Day, in which other women’s marches were also planned, even President Luis Arce was summoned to join the mobilizations of women supporters of the Government. <\/p>\n Thousands of Brazilian women, but also numerous men, occupied the streets of the country this Tuesday (08.03.2022) to call for greater gender equality and protested against the \u201cmacho and genocidal\u201d policies perpetrated by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n Under shouts of \u201cBolsonaro will fall\u201d, \u201cDown with genocide\u201d or \u201cEnough of misogyny and patriarchy\u201d, they marched on the roads of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, among other Brazilian cities, to advocate for equality on this International Women’s Day. In Sao Paulo, the demonstrators gathered at the Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), on the iconic Paulista Avenue at 16.00 local time (19.00 GMT), from where they marched about three kilometers towards the city center. <\/p>\n Thousands of Colombian women protested Tuesday, on International Women’s Day, in a colorful march through Bogota that celebrated the recent decriminalization of abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy and demanded an end to male violence.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s legal, it’s legal, abortion in Colombia is legal!\u201d chanted the women gathered in front of the Historical Memory Center, in the center of the Colombian capital. The demonstrators gathered around 15H00 local time (20H00 GMT) at different points in Bogota and marched peacefully towards the center waving green scarves, dancing and chanting. <\/p>\n Tens of thousands of women marched this Tuesday (08.03.2022) in Santiago for greater equality, among them the next first lady, Irina Karamanos, and several ministers of the future leftist president Gabriel Boric, who will assume in three days a government that promised to be \u201cfeminist\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cDemocracy in the country, in the house and in bed,\u201d read the banner carried by Karamanos, 32, Boric’s partner, and other future female authorities such as Camila Vallejos, the next government spokeswoman, and Izkia Siches, who will become Chile’s first Minister of the Interior, during the International Women’s Day demonstration.<\/p>\n Thousands of women marched this Tuesday in downtown San Jos\u00e9 to demand their rights and against harassment and what they consider \u201cneoliberal policies\u201d that affect the development of Costa Rica and its citizens.<\/p>\n The march had slogans against the two candidates for the Presidency of the Republic for the second round of elections on April 3: former President Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Figueres, whom the demonstrators called \u201cthief\u201d, and Rodrigo Chaves, whom they called \u201charasser\u201d in reference to a sanction for sexual harassment imposed on him by the World Bank when he was an official of that entity. The women also expressed their support for the legalization of abortion, their repudiation of the government for its \u201cneoliberal, patriarchal and sexist\u201d policies, as well as for femicide and sexual harassment. <\/p>\n Cuba commemorated on Tuesday International Women’s Day amid official congratulations for the progress achieved by Cuban women in society and criticism from independent activists on issues still unresolved.<\/p>\n Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel congratulated on Twitter \u201call Cuban women who make the Homeland proud with their work\u201d and thanked them \u201cfor sustaining and raising creative resistance every day\u201d. Similar messages were posted on social networks to highlight, for example, that Cuba signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. <\/p>\n Some 150 people demonstrated this Tuesday (08.03.2022) in Santo Domingo on the occasion of Women’s Day to make a series of demands, among them the decriminalization of abortion in three cases, as well as the prevention of violence.<\/p>\n Wearing orange and green clothing and carrying flags and signs, the groups of demonstrators -men and women- walked to the National Congress headquarters shouting slogans such as \u201cNeither submissive nor obedient, women fighters\u201d or \u201cThis day is not a day of celebration, it is a day of struggle and resistance\u201d. After the brief march, activist Lucereida Mej\u00eda, of the <\/span>Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras<\/em>, read a manifesto that was delivered to the National Congress, to demand from legislators \u201ca different attitude to guarantee women’s rights\u201d.<\/p>\n A massive march took place this Tuesday in Quito for International Women’s Day, in which the demands for equality, decriminalization of abortion and justice against feminicide were heard again, but also against wars around the world.<\/p>\n Feminist groups marched through the streets of the center of the capital of Ecuador in a march in which, loudly, they demanded the president of the country, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, to eliminate the terms of the recent law that regulates abortion in cases of rape. The mobilization included a strong struggle with the police in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, in the historic center of Quito, which has been kept under protection against the possibility of new social demonstrations. <\/p>\n To the unified cry of \u201cNi una menos, vivas nos queremos\u201d (Not one less, we want us alive), thousands of Salvadoran women marched through the main streets of San Salvador on March 6 to demand justice for the missing women and victims of femicides, perpetrated in the Central American country considered one of the most dangerous for women.<\/p>\n Feminists, trans women, war veterans, human rights defenders and students gathered at one of the entrances of the University of El Salvador (UES) and then headed as a block to Cuscatl\u00e1n Park, in a demonstration that took place on the occasion of International Women’s Day. \u201cAlive they took them away, alive we want them\u201d, chanted the women who also carried different posters with messages such as: \u201cI look prettier when I’m quiet, I don’t look quiet\u201d, \u201cwe fight for those who are no longer here and those who are coming behind\u201d, \u201cmy fear became strength\u201d, \u201cwe are the cry of those who are no longer here\u201d, among others. <\/p>\n Dozens of women in Guatemala demanded justice on Tuesday (08.03.2022) for the death of 41 girls burned five years ago in a state-run home, in a case that is advancing by tiny steps in the Central American country’s judicial system.<\/p>\n The demand for justice took place during the day of International Women’s Day, both in morning and afternoon marches that took place in downtown Guatemala City, specifically at the altar created several years ago by various social organizations to remember the girls. The altar, a few meters from the National Palace of Culture, seat of the Guatemalan Government, was attended by dozens of women who honored the 41 girls who died in the tragedy, where 15 other girls were injured. <\/p>\n Hundreds of Honduran women marched this Tuesday in Tegucigalpa against the 61 femicides that have shaken the country so far this year and to demand the fulfillment of their rights and the approval of the <\/span>Shelter House Law<\/em> <\/span>for victims of male violence.<\/p>\n In one of the marches, which went all the way to the Honduran Parliament, they also protested against harassment and other macho aggressions against them, on International Women’s Day. Honduran activist Celeste Guardiola told the agency <\/span>Efe<\/em> <\/span>that the mobilization, called by different feminist non-governmental organizations, seeks to \u201cmake visible\u201d disabled women as well. \u201cAs women with disabilities we want to make ourselves visible to society, we have also been victims of violence,\u201d said Guardiola, who uses a wheelchair. <\/p>\n On Tuesday (08.03.2022), tens of thousands of women marched through central avenues of Mexico City, shouting for justice for the growing femicides and domestic violence, as part of International Women’s Day.<\/p>\n \u201cFeminicidal state!\u201d and \u201cJustice! Justice!\u201d, repeated the women who left the emblematic Angel of Independence, a monument erected on the Paseo de la Reforma, bound for the Z\u00f3calo, the country’s main square. \u201cIt’s a lot of impotence because you can’t do anything for your sisters\u201d who have been assaulted, said to the agency <\/span>AFP <\/span><\/em>Diana Renedo, 19, a business relations student, as a contingent shouted in unison “Not one more murdered woman!”. Mothers of femicide victims chanted roll call of their daughters’ names. “I want to see the murderers in jail!” read a banner from that contingent. <\/p>\n Nicaragua commemorated this Tuesday the International Women’s Day with 14 opposition leaders detained in the framework of the socio-political crisis that the country has been experiencing since April 2018, while the government of President Daniel Ortega highlighted the advances in gender policy.<\/p>\n Several human rights, feminist and opposition organizations went to <\/span>Twitter<\/em> <\/span>to \u201cshout\u201d for the convicted dissidents, through the hashtag #GritoPorLasPresasPoliticas, promoted by the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH).<\/p>\n At least a thousand women marched in Panama on Tuesday (08.03.2022), International Women’s Day, to demand greater protection for girls and adolescents against sexual violence and to demand better labor rights.<\/p>\n \u201cWe fight for these girls, because Panama is the second country in the Americas with the second highest rate of pregnant teenagers, only Haiti surpasses us,\u201d he told the agency. <\/span>Efe<\/em> <\/span>alternate deputy of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) and women’s rights activist, Walkiria Chandler. Under a large banner bearing the phrase \u201cgirls, not mothers\u201d, women of different ages, social classes and political currents marched dressed in purple, the symbol of feminism, through the main streets of Panama City. <\/p>\n Hundreds of Peruvian women marched on March 5, as part of International Women’s Day, through downtown Lima to raise their voices against male violence, a scourge that gives no respite in a country where every two days a woman is murdered for the mere fact of being a woman.<\/p>\n Collectives of common pots, domestic caregivers, peasants, sex workers, disabled people and relatives of disappeared women and victims of feminicide gathered in front of the Palace of Justice in the Peruvian capital and walked through the main streets of the city to demand equality and denounce the capitalist system that makes them precarious.<\/p>\n The color violet tinged the International Women’s Day march in Uruguay, despite the fact that the day was marred by the general strike called by the trade union central, the PIT-CNT, in a gesture rejected by theIntersocial Feminist<\/em> <\/span> <\/span> and described as \u201cpolitical\u201d by the government.<\/em><\/p>\n Faced with this dilemma, tens of thousands of women marched this Tuesday in purple and flooded the streets of downtown Montevideo in the largest march in recent times with slogans such as \u201cLet them come to see \/ let them come to see \/ the feminist struggle is not managed by the PIT CNT\u201d. The <\/span>Intersocial Feminista<\/em>, which acknowledged that the day passed without incident, called the march under the slogan \u201cTogether, in all spaces, against oppressions\u201d.<\/p>\n At least 500 people, followers of Chavism, mobilized this Tuesday in Caracas to commemorate International Women’s Day and for the promotion of public policies that promote and guarantee gender equality in Venezuela.<\/p>\n The group, made up mostly of women, mobilized from the Plaza Morelos, in downtown Caracas, to the Miraflores Palace, seat of the Executive, where they shouted slogans in support of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and on the occasion of the commemoration. \u201cTo victory with feminist socialism\u201d and \u201cVenezuelan women have what it takes\u201d were some of the messages that the demonstrators displayed on banners as they walked through the main streets of downtown Caracas. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thousands of people marched in the streets of Latin America to commemorate International Women’s Day and to demand the guarantee of their rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipasbolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bolivia: women march with pictures of rapists<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Brazil: demand for equality and an end to Bolsonaro’s “macho policies<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Colombia: march in first 8M after decriminalization of abortion<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Chile: Marching with the next first lady and future ministers<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Costa Rica: thousands of women march for their rights<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Cuba: Women’s Day commemorated amidst congratulations and criticism<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Dominican Republic: Women claim their rights in front of the National Congress<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Ecuador: women march for equality, abortion, justice and against wars<\/strong><\/h2>\n
El Salvador: Thousands demand justice for missing women and femicides<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Guatemala: women demand justice 5 years after state home tragedy<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Honduras: march against femicides and demand fulfillment of their rights<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Mexico: rivers of women demand justice in the face of increasing femicides<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Nicaragua commemorates Women’s Day with 14 opposition leaders imprisoned<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Panama: women march for girls’ protection<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Peru: march against male violence<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Uruguay: purple tinges an 8M color tainted by a union strike<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Venezuela: Chavista supporters marched in Caracas<\/strong><\/h2>\n