To blaze a trail, Mexican women together stand for ‘her’!

Mexico, March 12: Society deserves to note it's presence to run ecosystem. Each one on this sphere should respect other's fundamental rights and that their liberties. In modern world today, prestigious positions are held by women we say and they tend to enjoy the 'ladies first' policy in various fields. But problems like dowry, female infanticide, sex selective abortions, health, domestic violence take their heads out easy. What if we claim that illiteracy and lack of awareness are immutable obstacles in the path of standing against these follies? Let’s discuss a unique agitation held in Mexico.

 

 

The women’s absence from public spaces was intended to be a reminder that every day, 10 women in Mexico are killed and so disappear forever. Tens of thousands of women vanished from streets, offices and classrooms across Mexico on Monday, part of a nationwide strike to protest the violence they suffer and to demand government action against it.

 

“It is no longer possible to continue living in a country where a woman can be murdered in a brutal way, without any consequence, and in a culture that allows for it to happen,” said Lorena Wolffer, an artist and feminist activist. The broad support for both the march and strike were also inspired by the global #MeToo movement and by outrage over the recent killings of Ingrid Escamilla, a 25 years old, who was killed, skinned, and of Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett, a 7 years old, whose body was found wrapped in a plastic bag.

 

The violence spurred a national debate over gender-based violence and Mexico’s entrenched culture of machismo that transcended the usual divisions of Mexico’s deeply stratified society, age, class, race and politics. Indian women live in different cultures, but few of them are still fighting for their rights. Instead of hard efforts for awareness campaigns by social activists, even Indian laws could not stop rituals of early marriages in some communities.

 

In India only 66 percent of women are literate when compared to the men community, 82 per cent. And among the women who begin an education, most are unable to finish because of the prevalence of child marriages. According to UNICEF, one in every three of the world’s child brides lives in India. Of the 223 million child brides in the country, 102 million were married before the age of 15. Now, isn't the earlier mentioned eloquence apt?