The Ni Una Menos feminist collective has taken over the #Mexico City headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and turned it into a shelter for victims of gender-based violence.
Incredible pics by @Usagii_ko via @Andalalucha h/t @chakes_ mexiconewsdaily.com/news/feminists…
The commission’s Mexico City headquarters are “now our property, we’re not going to hand it over, it’s a squat for victims,” said Yesenia Zamudio, a collective member whose daughter was murdered in 2016.
This is Yesenia earlier this year.
She said that victims of gender abuse who have nowhere to live will be welcomed at the CNDH offices.
“We’re more suitable…for these premises than the parasitic people who were here before. We’re going to provide…legal advice ..and accompany [women] to prosecutor’s offices.”
Zamudio said that women from other parts of the country who have suffered sexual abuse as well as family members of victims of femicide and other gender crimes will be welcomed.
“We want them to come with the peace of mind that they won’t have to pay for accommodation and that we’ll accompany them so that their demands and needs are met.”
After Pres. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador chided the activists for defacing images of Francisco Madero, an assassinated former president revered by many as a hero of the 1910-1920 revolution, the protesters daubed paint on portraits of more historic figures. channelnewsasia.com/news/world/mex…
One feminist activist denounced Lopez Obrador for his misplaced sense of outrage.
"How can you get outraged about this picture, but not about how my own daughter was abused?" she shouted, banging her hand against the canvas
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