For Paraguay's Indigenous & Trans Women, the State is Violence
For Paraguay's Indigenous & Trans Women, the State is Violence
Published 25 November 2015 (10 hours 51 minutes ago)
The diverse crowd of activists represent different but intersecting struggles, offering a glimpse into the diversity of the Paruguayan struggle against gendered-violence. Transgender, Indigenous, campesinas, sex-workers and low-income women joined forces on Wednesday to march across the Paraguayan capital of Asunción in opposition to gender-based violence.
To mark the International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women, the diverse crowd of actors represented different but intersecting struggles, offering a glimpse of just how widespread gendered violence is in the country.
For Vanessa Mencia, an organizer who works with low-income women in some of the most impoverished areas of the capital, the problem lies with the state and the men who run the country.
"All the authorities that govern us are men. It is they who make the decisions for us,” said Mencia. “We believe that most of the violence that women suffer from comes from the state, when they deny us access to employment and decent conditions to have and raise children," she told EFE.
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