Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires, saw one of the biggest protests against domestic violence to date, as over 200,000 rallied in front of the country's National Congress last Wednesday to demand justice for all those women who have been abused and even ultimately murdered in gender-based crimes.
Buenos Aires wasn't the only city in the South American nation holding protests against domestic violence, as there were 70 more in the country rallying against these terrible crimes, supported by at least two other countries in the region, namely neighboring countries Chile and Uruguay.
According to International Business Times, the protests against domestic violence in the South American capital were led by Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner and Barça star soccer player Lionel Messi, and they were followed by hundreds of thousands, among them women's rights groups, political parties, the Catholic church and worker's unions from different professions.
Newsweek reports that the region's protests against domestic violence, under the slogan "Ni Una Menos" (translating to "Not One Less"), are raising awareness about South America's yearly gender-based killings of women, also called "femicide," a crime that Argentina has increased sentencing to in 2012, though the problem continues in Latin America.
AFP's figures say that five women are killed every day in Mexico due to domestic violence, while the same occurs for 15 women daily in Brazil, incredibly high numbers that have led the protests against domestic violence throughout the continent.
The hashtag #NiUnaMas gained notoriety last month through Twitter, and grew further after the murder of Chiara Paez, a 14 year-old pregnant girl in Argentina, which prompted little response from state and police authorities - in all, the citizens demanded justice for her death, as well as that of thousand other women.
There are 16 countries in Latin America that have added femicide to their penal codes, but it hasn't been enough, ultimately prompting massive protests against domestic violence in some of the region's nations.
