The demonstration, called by the organization Feminist Articulation, will denounce the new government’s lack of interest in ending these harmful acts against women on this day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, said a statement from the organization published by the newspaper TODAY .
The country is experiencing an increase in structural violence against girls and women, the text says, with no guarantees from the authorities for a life free of violence and machismo.
“We feel the advance of the anti-right in our bodies, they try to ban words to hide the asymmetries we encounter, they persecute our rights achievements and, worst of all, our colleagues who use their voice to raise a protest.”
Feminist Articulation’s statement emphasizes that “we are not alone today. If they touch someone, we will all defend them because together we are stronger.”
The protest parade, called for by Women’s Articulation during an event in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Education and Science, will take place in the capital’s Uruguayan and Democracy squares, where the ladies will read a manifesto as a prelude to a feminist festival.
“We denounce that the new government has no interest in guaranteeing us a life free of violence. It even promotes hate campaigns and formal education that perpetuate stereotypes of gender roles and machismo,” the institution’s statement said.
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1999 and describes “any act of violence based on the membership of the female sex that has or may have physical, sexual or psychological consequences.” Harm or Sorrow.”
However, the initiative came about much earlier, through a call by the Latin American feminist movement in 1981, to commemorate the day on which the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) were murdered in the Dominican Republic in 1960.
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