Early in the day their thirty days, while watching Manhattan Criminal Court, as Harvey Weinstein had been tried for rape and intimate attack, a team of 60 females sang out of the chilling feminist anthem “El violador eres tu” (”The Rapist Is You”). Since its viral premiere in Chile final November, this chorus has motivated survivors of gender-based physical violence all over the world.

Nevertheless, Friday’s performance offers just one exemplory instance of exactly how current protests in Chile, Argentina, and Mexico therefore the rich traditions of feminist social movements throughout Latin America are bringing worldwide attention and systemic switch to the pervasive issue of physical physical violence against ladies and girls (VAWG).

Undeniably, gender-based physical physical violence the most extensive, persistent, and damaging peoples legal rights abuses inside our globe today. Weiterlesen →