Not One Less: Battle Cry of #NiUnaMenos Echoes Through Latin America Jamie Ballard - The Huffington Post
go to original June 23, 2015

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There's a prominent movement happening right now based out of Argentina, where radio journalist Marcela Ojeda, fed up with the number of femicide stories landing on her desk, organized a call to arms. She tweeted "They're killing us," with a hashtag: #NiUnaMenos - not one less.

She and several other female journalists who covered similar stories organized a march for June 3, expecting a modest turnout. Instead, they led 200,000 woman in a march to the Capitol building in Buenos Aires, as other demonstrations took place across the country. Since then, the movement has garnered a great deal of attention, taking hold in several other Latin American countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

But it's especially notable that the current movement originated in Argentina, a place where there is an intensely pervasive culture of aggressive masculine pride.

The term femicide is "generally understood to mean the intentional killing of women because they are women," according to the World Health Organization. Statistics on the issue are generally difficult to gather, but those that are available are startling. Domestic violence kills nearly one woman a day in Argentina, more than five a day in Mexico and 15 a day in Brazil, according to this article from Business Insider.

One reason the issue is so pressing is thanks to the rash of extreme violence against women in Argentina.

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