A new study finds one in three women in the European Union has experienced gender-based violence in their lifetime. In Spain, thousands of protesters, some donning white masks, marched through Madrid Monday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Lucía Nistal: “We’re here to denounce the male chauvinist violence we suffer, which of course are the femicides — we’ve had more than 80 in the Spanish state throughout the year, regrettably — but also the wage gap. We suffer job precariousness and many other things that we are denouncing today — for example, the military budgets and the militarization of borders or the genocide in Palestine. We have that in mind, too, at this demonstration.”
