Red shoes line main square in Mexico City to protest killings of women in gender-related violence
A portrait of Eugenia Machuca Campos sits amid women's red shoes placed by activists to protest violence against women in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main plaza, January 11, 2020. Activists placed hundreds of painted-red women’s shoes on Mexico City’s sun-drenched main square on Saturday to call attention to gender-based violence in a country where, on average, 10 women and girls are murdered each day and less than 10 percent of the cases are ever solved.
The common thread running throughout: authorities’ inability to solve the problem of gender-based violence in one of the world’s most dangerous countries to be female. Elizabeth Machuca Campos holds the portrait of her sister Eugenia Machuca Campos amid women's red shoes placed in the Zocalo by people protesting violence against women in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. According to Elizabeth, her sister's ex-boyfriend is serving time in jail for her Oct. 2017 murder in the State of Mexico.
“Those pairs of shoes are missing their owners,” she said, fighting back tears. “The women who have been torn from us.” Women's red shoes are piled up in the Zocalo where they were placed by people to protest violence against women in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020.
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