Run a Virus Outbreak special coverage on 0. Ok and you are in the stream fury in the streets of a femicide in mexico protesters are asking what they stop and for the government to take the issue seriously we want you to share your thoughts on how to address violence against women you can let us know in our life you choose charts. I am see set up is that from mexico lawyer and journalist and you are in the street. In mexico women are taking part in the countrys 1st all womens labor strike its called a day without us no women know what school or in public these are some of the hashtags a Company Driving the conversation the event was created in response to recent acts of gender based violence that have dominated mexican headlines this year public outrage was reignited after the separate murders of ingrid s. K. Media a 25 year old woman allegedly mutilated by a partner i was 7 year old school gulko fatima whose tortured corpse was found in a plastic bag this is what estrella at noon yes and activists in mexico city had to say about being a woman in mexico. Being a woman in mexico is an act of resistance its an act of rebellion because im the one that has to demand that im not murdered for what to be able to reach my goals to achieve my purpose how can we stop the normalization of this violence by stopping our friends who make chauvinist jokes with some empathy and a bit of solidarity we can today is the start of a revolution. With us to talk about this in mexico city Alexander Sosa a lawyer and protest taking part in todays women strike in Monterrey Mexico many essentials for al a lawyer protest organizer and in mexico city aljazeera correspondent john the home and we also reached out to the Mexican Government the National Institute for women to join this discussion and after some back and forth they told us that nobody was available but good to have you with us get out a 100 but he and john im going to start with some protest pictures that you sent us thank you very much im just wondering how much were tapping into your moods this water are so so poignant here start murdering and raping us another one here may patriarchy fear feminism if you could describe your mood right now how would you describe your mood. Thank you for having me when i say. That we all share yesterday in the march and weve been sharing a floor from years now. Going to be nation of anger and impotence because of whats happening in the country. Weve been having. An already living very sorry to day we men are raped. 40. 3000. 00 rapes we have each year we have 60 we have 600000. 00 other sexual crimes a day. The problem nice very evident its an actual gundam integrals against women so i wanted to express that in their assured race sure. And i. Dont read that correctly pronounced. When you say is that me but i try to keep your feminism so i just i didnt wait it translated it that theyre pretty sure you yesterday ok let me just well let me just bring in our 10100 this idea of a day with out us what did you do today what were other women doing today well the workplace we put out a little demonstration with the. Signs. Would some that our order gender bias. The the problem is really evident so are we at the workplace wanted to make sure that even though we were not at the workplace the men there were able to see. How or behold the problem how or how big the problem is i personally stay at home today on strike they are on strike now to shift let me share this john i love your twitter feed it gives me a little idea of whats been going on in mexico today so john says some metro stations this morning seem to be a bit of a standstill without the Winning Ticket Machine Operators now how do we use those machines again so he can see the managers wandering around like what are we supposed to be doing what else have you seen john how effective is the strike with women staying at home. I suppose were in a bit of a mexico city puzzle i think its muddy at that moment today but it just it seems pretty something pretty historic here i mean just this park that im in now this would usually be full of people its not completely deserted you can see some men actually walking past here but its almost empty the citys main avenue reformer is so much more subdued. We shared the metro actually the metro actually has its own carriages for women in mexico city and thats because theres been so many incidents of groping and harassment and what weve been told is especially this morning in rush hour those carriages were going out almost empty so this is something i dont think all women striking theres a lot of women in the Informal Sector here or from the working class that possibly dont have the means to do this but i think theres so many women here that arent going out in the streets that arent going to their workplace and that even in their homes saying you know this has to be a day without women so that everyone understands the gravity of this is if we disappeared as if these various sides are being killing us. My own wife actually im im im here keeping a sort of i owe my on my son because shes also on strike at the moment in the home saying no we have to be as if we disappeared so this is a huge huge impact i think in the city of nationwide is something ive never seen in mexico i wonder to give people an idea of what it is like t. V. Live in mexico as a woman one of the things youve done is that its almost like in the such an e. Meter on the subject chart so you take things that maybe politicians or all the media has said and you score it for how bad in terms of miss such a mistake and i do that can you give us an example of that. I dont know. The question yes you do in the sultani meter you keep track of my son jimmy can you explain why you will during that give us an example. I am no doubt that if that is currently doing the will there are certain lottery of. Do measurements oho me such a mystics are the. Fully dishes. Educational so it is i just want to go to yes they wish there was so many protests across mexico and this is one protester explaining why shes out there on the streets as have a look it was International Womens day you know nothing about it got no. Where is monica yant where is julio ramos where all of those young women that came from the outer neighborhoods whose bodies were found this is the justice that the state is giving us no one trusts them no one trusts the organizations of Civil Society because in this city girls and women keep disappearing and being murdered. John im just going there of course just came back to john systems and startling headlines which even in a country that is used to seeing terrible things happen to women really let target people so as i mentioned earlier there was the murder of a young woman and her in a adults were found in the sewer and then. It cannot but be moved in just terrified by a little kid a little 7 Year Old Girl who was also murders how bad is it now in mexico are we reaching a Tipping Point where the government has to do something. Well i think i think just hearing that woman that you just played the clip from it just sends goosebumps down you when i in of course and a 100 a many year weve been looking at this thing for years in the country and the crimes that you mentioned to 7 year old Fatima Ingrid those are things that weve been seeing for years across mexico so this does feel like the 1st time perhaps where theres been this huge surge of women you just saw in the protest that was going through the citys main avenues yesterday it was just a sea of purple women coming out to say really enough is enough and even the strike here so you hope you hope its some sort of Tipping Point i was speaking to a couple of women earlier on today that weve been interviewing as we go on that day and theyve been saying maybe this isnt going to change all of a sudden but at least the Younger Generation maybe theyll start to learn that theres a different way to treat women to refer to women and to act towards women in this country now you mention the government there under his Manuel Lopez Obrador is mexicos president and i think a lot of women that ive been talking to anyway and i 100 media can speak to this more than i have been surprised by his reaction his he suggested a point even today actually the day after that huge march that there were conservative interests to hind this march in that times passes called the black hand behind this movement so he said that the cause of all these famous sides or part of the cause could be neo liberal ideology in the country that that needs to be changed and he hasnt so far come up with a really tangible plan to tackle this to tackle the femicide in the country and no ones suggesting that its tied under his watch this is something thats been going on in mexico for years now but it is surprising to me and i think disappointing and id like to add 100. 00 a month he had to speak more to this of his reaction to it. Yes about where you were asking before up there one to 5 scale and it was me and he month we have. A group of women thats gone christmas we guess and what we do is to. Well among other things we like to. Score sun club like these courses of. Many governments and we. Score from one to 5 we call in my 2 girls if you get one might. Say something there in the sea lice is there we must fight. Between my teeth does. Humiliate women get fine my teeth does leave you. There we men except to get raped so we have a scale. In which we have to score the. Same this day the public statements of our governor are or the president or many legislators so thats a way of us to a way we have to be civilized the problem of my cheese morning the Public Discourse and above what john was saying i personally disappointed of the president because they bought it for him. And i see there. Are interested in. Not making conservatives angry than a denninger of the immense and he has in fact called us them in that we have conservative interests and thats why were marching and brought this thing which is absolutely not true i think that flaming me being a feminist and being a conservative just doesnt go with its a contradiction so i would like the president to. She rose to embarrass him that is signing of Public Policy to hear other women in his government which are very capable women in the. Government maybe hear them more so that we can eradicate peace under me which is violence against women so let me just bring in just a little bite from present lopressor over door so that out general audience can hear what he thinks about this idea of gender based violence in mexico so this was for me the 17th lets have a listen. Mexican society has fallen into decline a progressive dark relation that has to do with the neo liberal models this isnt solved just with police or with presence or with threats of a heavy hand we have to address the background here that there be material well being and well being of a soldier. On our live you tube chat people are talking about the idea of impunity in mexico so he samarian he says i am mexican and the real problem is the lack of justice not only in the area femicide but him mexico we have 90 percent of impunity in every single felony 100 go ahead yes i mean i do completely agree it should not only the impunity unfamous saved for me actually impunity of what happens before for any side because most of the times when i go when a woman gets killed thats not the for a sign of violence that she saw for most of the time she has been before she has been called names before she has been sexually assaulted before so the fact that this kind of crimes that is not that they are aware selfimportant that are very sad but the point that this kind of crimes week. Remain within if what actually leads to our premise so i dont completely agree i am completely disappointed at the reaction of the president as marianna. And i think that he needs to put up on a comprehensive agenda agenda to tackle general violence and it need. To start not only d impunity against let me 3rd world or also regards of generalists as a whole because its all part of the whole family side is just that the big point. Im wondering what is actually been done by the current government the institute for women lets have a listen to this comment and bring it into the conversation here we gotta do it to the viewer. In my contrie score and. I decided to participate today in this straight because my grampa mexican woman i can not be indifferent to the wave of feminism. They were meant as not being enabled to stop the march of the woman its necessary the creation of the ministry of the woman. And independent we are on the voice we have heard their mission to make a stronger claims we want justice we want to live in a different way so that was rosa maria mercenaries a mexican based in france and she has also been protesting in support of the women who are protesting in mexico these are some of the images of her protest mexicans in paris. Together we are stronger not one more mexico femicide you know you get the idea of where her energy is coming from but john just thinking back to the government and the authorities in mexico what are they doing because this is a movement that is growing and growing. Yes you really are so that i think all the government is true at least have a specialized the go ahead go ahead. Sorry i think that in regards of that the mexico city of story does have taken upon well this is. Related to the safety of women in the Public Transportation so as john said earlier we have. A special car scene the metro stations for women we have a special car seeing them at all for women we have that kind of stuff but it hasnt been quite enough so the wonder was beginning early she was speaking about having mexican. Women ministry we dont have one of those in mexico city and in mexico city the mexico City Government she has held meetings with we are with women and with feminist in order to listen to what theyre looking for in regards of feminist policing gender gender publicist and thats kind of the things that they have been doing what unfortunately it hasnt been enough tipped john go ahead were going to say. No i suppose a question from a 100 of them for many years well i mean mates chris city with all sorts of things that just as you i think it was on the hunter there speaking just as you said there are mexico city there seems to be more happening when you go to the area just outside its called the state of make square listo i mean he could you see. Over the years theres been a lot of famous sites and youve seen a State Government thats really been reluctant. Over many years im not in some a lot of like this so the federal level has happened as well there was talk of a special area in the in the Attorneys Office being set up to try and deal with this present Lopez Obrador seem to sort of indicate this morning that he didnt think that was necessary but it seems like i was speaking to me at the loose sister other whos a very prominent sort of activist but womens rights in the country and has been for some time and she said that even though sometimes things look great on paper the rules we have the kind of protocols to deal with these sorts of things with violence towards women in the practice theres a lack of sort of so full of those frou or a lack of resources or manpower or just the police really be reluctant to do it and she says that thats a generalized problem i was speaking through on the phone the other day its certainly what weve seen in our reporting across years in mexico so i spoke. To you guys but he another 100 do you see that outside of sort of mexico city how the you see the willpower i suppose of the mexican authorities to act on this. Yet thats a generalist or all in all that going to mean every city we have. Impunity we have a problem that we have. A rare look at me good last but they are not. Executing it way they should be. We can in fact lower enormous. Pressure and that. Rep reduce gender based violence so or even eve eve the people who are ruling the us. Apply the law the way it should be what do we expect of other men so our day without women. Reflective exercises of life would happen eve one day. Overnight we all disappeared and it terribly exercised but. The reason is very real. We are in fact these appearing every day tim bacon so. Is that government going to. Listen to us now or is it going to keep doing what needs always been doing every march 8th saying every cute statement about oh we love women but we dont do anything about it we dont do anything about the fact that you are being raped that you are being murdered and we dont make any gender. Gender perspective ali says let me mary let me just bring our 100 because i wonder just by looking at her face is your face looks hopeless but i know that you are hopeful because you are protesting you are trying to make change happen at 100. The risk is very real actually 2 days ago one girl her name is not her name was the other one he got all the. Birth of her brother she pulls to the plays or. A missing person wrote with her face kind of mimicking what will happen if she went missing and just earlier she was or other by a man so yeah the risk is very real so thats why i have these hopeless photos i used to know her im so sorry. Looking also one of things that we are some 100 quid ahead of what. Well you know to i suppose a question from a 100 a month what should the Mexican Government be doing what would you hope to see off the 2 days of enormous archon openness and we hope to see at least i can speak more for me we all the families dont look they expect him thing but i would suspect openness from that were meant. I would expect to eradicate completely their might choose morning their Public Discourse and in their actions i would expect to. Be older planned with feminist weve experts with people in his government women in his or him and were very capable and well together a lot of action to eradicate bias against women that goes in to the institutional. Sector but also in the well to other aspects of the problem which is very important to read educate people and really you could society about how important these fight if and even though we seem like very fire a way to achieve equality. Every date we directly has and every day we. Will protest and with these kind of programs that you are. Having we are making conscious and one people like one person it is. We are beginning to address the problem. Also i think that as maria i completely agree we need more openness from the president we need him to go calling us conservatives because thats not the case actually a feminist is completely opposite where progressive people. And we need to see not only the gender discourse being pulled into into this into a discourse because while it is true that half of the cabinet women we havent seen this completely turned into paul the 5th we are not see any budgetary decisions being taken in regards of womens safety actually it has been kind the opposite last year. The budget for women refugees pleaded. They cut off their budget for that so thats actually the opposite since the year so you want actually the government or the policymakers to turn it into actual policy and put funding into it and just give you one thought clear from keith who is watching our show on twitter he says he or women make the reporting of violence against women a process where women are heard trust is supported and protected and provide all Necessary Services confidentially as well thank you al hunt dress thank you maria thank you john harmon and thank you for watching us the next time on the street. 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