Women report alarming femicide rates and missing women cases during demonstration in Peru

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Hundreds of women marched through the streets of Lima on Saturday, a few days before the 'International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women', which is celebrated on November 25. (Courtesy of Associated Press)  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00The body is mine, and only mine, and only mine is the decision.

00:30We are making visible the fight against violence against women.

00:42And well, I think that now we are even more angry for several reasons.

00:46The first reason, I think, is that having a woman president of the republic,

00:52that woman is completely functional to the patriarchy, totally functional to the patriarchy.

00:57She doesn't care about gender violence, she doesn't care about other issues related to women.

01:07In the course of the year, at least 135 femicides have been reported.

01:11We are seeing that the rate of violence is very high.

01:15Until July of this year, more than 5,000 reports of disappearance of women of all ages have been presented,

01:22from girls, teenagers, women and older adults.

01:24With this, we are seeing that only half of the disappeared have been found.

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