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Piles of donated clothes and shoes from sympathizers inside the “Okupa, Casa de Refugio Ni Una Menos”, a feminist occupation inside the Human Rights Commission office in Mexico City, Mexico on September 26, 2020. On September 3rd, a group of feminists has taken over the offices of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in downtown Mexico City to demand justice for the victims of violence. Protesters have turned the federal building into a shelter for female victims of violence and their families. They have vowed to occupy it until the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador takes decisive action to stop the relentless toll of femicide, gender violence, sexual assault, and forced disappearances. According to government statistics, at least eleven women are murdered every day in Mexico, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for girls and women. Femicides rates have doubled in the past five years in Mexico. Impunity is a major problem, 90 percent of cases go unsolved. Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus
Benedicte Desrus