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Eugene

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Mon Mar 8, 2021, 10:43 AM Mar 2021

Women's day: Mexico barrier turned into women's memorial [View all]

Source: BBC

Women's day: Mexico barrier turned into women's memorial

8 March 2021

Fencing erected to protect Mexico's National Palace ahead of a planned march to mark International Women's Day has been turned into a memorial.

The names of hundreds of victims of femicides - murders of women because of their gender - have been painted on the metal fencing.

The three-metre-high (9.8ft) barrier was put up to protect the palace "from vandalism", the government said.

Women's groups say the government does not do enough to combat femicides.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56321145


Women's group have turned the metal fencing into an impromptu memorial for the victims of femicides (EPA)


This slogan reads: "There will never be walls high enough that can stop organised women from tearing them down" (Reuters)
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