Hundreds of people demonstrated this Friday night in different parts of Uruguay through cacerolazos, rallies and self-convened marches to denounce the culture of rape, after the complaint of a woman who was abused last weekend was made public. by a group of men.
#Now
We march against rape culture.#Montevideo #againstthecultureofviolation #Uruguay pic.twitter.com/seolX5gQ1m– Valeria de los Santos (@Vdelossantos) January 28, 2022
In the capital, Montevideo, the march began in Plaza Independencia and ended in Plaza de La Cagancha.
And different concentrations occurred in other Uruguayan cities.
-
Attention, containment and advice in situations of gender violence
- By free call 24 hours Line 144
- By WhatsApp +5491127716463
- By mail to [email protected]
- Downloading the apps
Through a proclamation released by the movement identified with the term ‘Kearda’, it was explained that this gang rape is added to that of two young men aged 19 and 26, three girls aged 10 and 12 and two women aged 30 and 75. .
“All have been raped in recent months by their friends, parents, stepparents, sexual partners, partners and / or strangers,” the letter reads.
Last weekend, a 30-year-old woman was raped by at least four men, a fact that the prosecutor of Sexual Crimes Sylvia Lovesio described as “unprecedented in the country”.
The victim had gone to dance at a venue in the Cordón neighborhood of Montevideo where she met a man who, along with at least three others, raped her.
It wasn’t my fault, neither where I was nor how I dressed.
RAPE IS A CRIME ?
Intervention of the Weaving West Collective.
? Collaborative Coverage #NoIsPresumptionIsViolation #No means no #QueArda pic.twitter.com/Tj7fWGGWFF
— MediaRed (@mediareduy) January 28, 2022
“More than 300 women and dissidences met online this week and we organized rallies throughout the country and agreed on the proclamation,” Erika Vitureira, a feminist referent, told Télam.
In the document they highlight that they are demonstrating “against the culture of rape, rooted and naturalized as a practice of abuse of power, of war, of colonization, and that is still silenced under the most perverse mechanisms, which the media maintain, justice, the family, the church, the military, the State”.
Word of the Uruguayan President
The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou believed that the penalty should be “exemplary for these acts that are not typical of the human being and are not typical in this case of the male gender. We should be ashamed.”
Regarding the presidential declarations, the self-convened document stated that Lacalle Pou “does nothing but deny reality and hide a very serious problem that we have as a society. Find out, Mr. President, that rapists are human beings and mainly healthy male children of the patriarchy! “.
#Uruguay #Cannelloni #Atlantis
Above and below the bridge with banners and painted walls, Atlantis mobilizes against rape culture.
The organized feminists of the coast present.
? Collaborative Coverage #NoIsPresumptionIsViolation #No means no #QueArda pic.twitter.com/v2RCqmwcAY
— MediaRed (@mediareduy) January 28, 2022
And they asked him to “retract with accurate and forceful words and actions that demonstrate his responsibility as head of state to protect all citizens, including women, dissidents, children and adolescents.”
To change this violent culture, they requested comprehensive sexual education “from early childhood to know and care for our bodies, as well as respect the bodies of other people” and that “society commits itself from other highly influential spaces such as the media mass media”.
They also asked to “strengthen the resources and budgets that guarantee comprehensive protection, reparation and justice for victims throughout the country.”
