#NiUnaMenos in Argentina: figures, activities and document
The Mumala Observatory recorded that in the first 100 days of 2020, there were 96 fatal victims of machismo in Argentina.
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Five years ago, the #NiUnaMenos movement began in the streets of Argentina and then around the world following the femicide of Chiara Páez. Since then, cis and trans women, transvestites, lesbians, non-binary people, and more march every June 3rd, upholding the slogan and demanding justice throughout the year.
The National Registry of Femicides of the Observatory Women, Dissidences, Women's Rights of Matria Latinoamericana (Mumala) recorded that in the first 100 days of 2020, there were 96 fatal victims of machismo in Argentina.
In total, it recorded 82 femicides, linked femicides and trans/travesticides, which averages out to one femicide every 29 hours across the country .
The report notes that there were also 14 violent deaths of women that are under investigation and 61 attempted femicides.
SOCIAL TRANSFEMICIDES AND TRAVESTICIDES
According to figures from the National Observatory of LGBT Hate Crimes in Argentina, there were at least 12 transvesticide/transfemicides in 2019. According to a report by the Trans Memory Archive, produced in collaboration with Sister Mónica Astorga, a cloistered nun from Neuquén, 72 trans women died in the country during 2019. The average age of the deceased was 40, and the causes were lack of access to basic rights and patriarchal violence.
THE SUPREME COURT'S FIGURES
In 2019, there were 268 direct victims of femicide and related femicide, and 4 transvesticide and transfemicide victims in Argentina, crimes that left 222 children and adolescents orphaned, according to the National Femicide Registry of the Women's Office (OM ) of the Supreme Court of Justice. The number recorded in 2019 is only slightly lower than in 2018, when the Court documented 255 femicides committed against cisgender women, 4 transvesticide victims, and 23 related femicides. The report only counted 5 transfemicides because the data comes from the courts, and many murders of trans people are not investigated as transfemicides, or the victim's gender identity is not respected.
NiUnaMenos is also about demanding access to healthcare, employment, housing, education, and more. It's about having statistics for all communities. It's about stopping people from dying due to institutional neglect. #NoTransPeopleNoTransvestites
This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we won't be able to march in the streets; the activities will be virtual, but the demands don't stop: #WeWantToBeAlive
VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES ON NUMBER NETWORKS
5 PM: Dialogues of the Revolt
6 PM: Reading of demands
7 PM: Big Noise
8:30 PM: Projector and dance