Erika Martinez (L) and the mother of a victim (R) participate in a march protesting gender-based violence on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Mexico City, Mexico on November 25, 2020. Erika Martinez has been fighting unsuccessfully for three years to get the family member who sexually abused her 7-year-old daughter locked up. Erika became an activist after authorities refused to investigate. She is one of the mothers leading the takeover on September 2020 of the offices of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in downtown Mexico City to demand justice for the victims of violence. 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