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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2015 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Marches against femicide sweep across Argentina
Over 200,000 people took to the streets of cities around Argentina on 3 June to protest against the murder of women. The movement, which rallied around the slogan ‘Ni Una Menos’ (Not One Less), was organised on social media by a group of Argentine journalists, writers, and artists, appalled at the death of Chiara Páez, a 14-year-old girl whose body was found buried in the garden of her 16-year-old boyfriend’s house on 11 May. The marches took place in over 80 cities and were the biggest civil demonstrations in several years. They also spread to Uruguay and Chile, where thousands protested about their own country’s problems with gender violence.
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