Thousands of women and girls across Mexico have joined a historic national strike. The women protested against the country’s rates of gender-based violence and the government’s failure to respond to the crisis in which more than ten women are murdered every day.
The strike made up of women across multiple industries, was a disruption to business as usual. Executive coordinator of the National Citizen Observatory on Femicide Maria de la Luz Estrada said, “every day we have more evidence that they are killing us specifically for being women...”
The women in Mexico join the forces of women across the world fighting for justice and an end to gendered violence.