A photo of Lucia Perez, 16-year-old girl that was rapped and killed in Argentina. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 25, 2016. AP Photo/Leo Correa.
On October 19th, last month, women of the region made sure their voices were heard by staging a mass protest in Argentina. At midday, an hour-long strike took place, and in the late afternoon a number of protests unfolded across the country.
This mass mobilisation was provoked by the recent death of Lucia Perez, a 16-year-old girl who was drugged, raped and impaled to death in the city of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires. NiUnaMenos is a wide-reaching response to Lucia Perez’s death, in the fight for the protection of women’s lives against the ongoing, daily violence they suffer as a consequence of the deeply entrenched patriarchal system.
