「フェミサイド」やレイプに抗議、女性たちが暴力的デモ　メキシコ

【メキシコ市ＡＦＰ＝時事】国連が定める「女性に対する暴力撤廃の国際デー」の25日、メキシコ首都メキシコ市の目抜き通りで、大勢の女性がデモ行進を行った。同国では毎日平均9人以上の女性が殺害されている。（写真はメキシコ首都メキシコ市で「女性に対する暴力撤廃の国際デー」に合わせた抗議デモを行い、広告看板のガラスを割る女性たち）
　デモ参加者の一部が窓ガラスを割り、スプレーで記念碑にペイントするなどして、機動隊と衝突した。
　同国では女性や少女を標的とした殺人「フェミサイド」やレイプの発生件数が急増しており、女性への暴力を阻止できずにいる当局に対し、大規模かつ攻撃的な抗議活動が繰り返し行われている。
　この日、大きなハンマーを手にした覆面のデモ参加者らは、バス停のガラスを割り、広告看板を破壊した他、バリケードを崩し、火を付けるなどの行為に及んだ。メキシコ市で有名なレフォルマ通りに立つ複数の記念碑には、「あと何人死なねばならないのか？」などのメッセージが書かれた。
　デモ主催者らが、男性が攻撃対象になると警告していたこともあり、この日配備された数百の機動隊員の大半は女性だった。機動隊員らはデモ参加者らに唐辛子スプレーで応戦した。
　国際人権団体アムネスティ・インターナショナルによると、メキシコはフェミサイドの件数が中南米で最多で、国立統計機関によると、メキシコ女性の３人に２人が何らかの形で暴力の被害者になったことがあるという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/11/27-09:19）

Demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted monuments and clashed with riot police Monday on Mexico City's main avenue to protest Mexican authorities' failure to stop a spiral of violence against women.
Thousands of women took to the streets of the capital for the protest marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the latest in a series of large, rowdy marches over soaring rates of femicide and rape in Mexico.
Masked demonstrators with sledgehammers shattered the glass panes of bus stops and advertising billboards, tore down barricades, lit a bonfire and painted messages such as How many more need to die? on monuments lining Paseo de la Reforma, the city's most famous street.
Hundreds of riot police -- mostly women, given that protest organizers had warned any men would face attacks -- responded by firing pepper spray.
The movement has been dubbed the Glitter Revolution, after protesters doused the Mexico City security minister in pink glitter at one demonstration.
The latest unrest came despite the fact that Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, an ally of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, recently declared a gender violence alert in the capital, paving the way for more funding and security and other emergency measures.
Nineteen of Mexico's 32 states have now declared such alerts since 2007.
A protester from neighboring Mexico state, one of the deadliest in the country for women, said she was skeptical the measure would change anything.
In Mexico state, we've had a gender violence alert for four years running, and it hasn't done anything. They keep killing women, said Valeria Arevalo, 18.
It's just a technique to appease us, she told AFP.
Some men joined the march too.
One, Benjamin Vargas, carried a picture of his 22-year-old daughter, Sol, who was murdered last year along with his wife. The killer -- allegedly Sol's spurned admirer -- then burned both bodies.
It's a step forward, Vargas said of the gender violence alert.
But they need to do more.... The situation for women is getting worse every day. It just doesn't stop, he added, his voice breaking.
Mexico has the most femicides of any country in Latin America, according to Amnesty International.
More than nine women are murdered here every day.
Two in three Mexican women say they have been victims of violence in some form, according to the national statistics institute.