Scenes from the protests trended on social media. Femicide, the systemic killing of women, is recognized by the World Health Organization. "Women across Mexico took to the streets on [#8M21] to protest the crisis of violence they face on a daily basis …five million women were victims of sexual violence in the second half of 2020 in Mexico. Advertisement Hide Before Monday’s protest, police barricaded President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidential palace. According to a Washington Post report, the Mexican president “has long had tense relationships with feminist movements, [and] stoked the anger of many women for his support of a gubernatorial candidate accused of sexual assault, alongside continuing high cases of gender-based violence.”