“Not one woman less!”: Ecuadorian women march against gender-based violence : Peoples Dispatch

“Not one woman less!”: Ecuadorian women march against gender-based violence : Peoples Dispatch

On September 11, hundreds of women as well as members of various feminist movements and human rights organizations took to the streets of Ecuador’s capital Quito in rejection of gender-based violence. The mobilization took place one year after the femicide of lawyer María Belén Bernal by her spouse, police officer Germán Fernando Cáceres. The protesters gathered outside the Ministry of Agriculture and marched to the National Police Headquarters,…